This week I have been mostly listening to… Costello Music by The Fratellis
Given the way that this site is decorated it probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that The Fratellis‘ Costello Music caught my eye. And when you add the fact that they appear to have lifted their name from the villains in The Goonies, I liked them before I’d heard a single track. And I bought the album.
And now I’m feeling really pleased with myself because it’s a really good album.
It has quite a retro feel - 1970s mainly - which gives their songs a feeling of being vaguely familiar, but not quite familiar enough to be able to say where it came from. And then they twist it a bit, in a cheerfully uptempo manner, to come up with a series of vibrant pop anthems that really do keep things moving along.
Saturday 30 Sep 2006 | Paul | Music
