11/8/2022 0 Comments Night begins to shine song artist?![]() ![]() It beggars belief that the band didn’t gain more commercial traction but it would be a crying shame to forget the work they released, especially Ephemera. Photo by Steve HumphreysĪbout two years ago, Little Green Cars featuring Faye O’Rourke morphed into Soda Blonde they left behind two superb albums - 2013’s Absolute Zero and its follow-up. The songs (including Home Again, Dublin Love Song, Everybody Else Gets Wet) broadened the band’s creative reach without ever losing sight of the goal: absolutely perfect pop music. Where Little Sparks was one cracking song after another, this was an emotionally inspired concept album with a coherent storyline that, without fuss, conveyed the significance of home. Always expressive, here Delorentos added eloquence to their creative lexicon. In 2012, Delorentos won the Choice Music Prize with Little Sparks, an album full of the niftiest of pop/rock gems, but even that record was no match for Night Becomes Light. ![]() The only Bell X1 album to be co-produced by Peter Katis and Thomas Bartlett, Chop Chop is proof that placing new heads on old shoulders sometimes has to be done to do the job right. ![]() That creative rethink was Chop Chop, across which the band straddle piano-driven mini-anthems ( Careful What You Wish For), gorgeous pop songs ( Diorama) and completely un-Bell X1-like songs ( Starlings Over Brighton Pier, A Thousand Little Downers). “Shrink the palette!” was the battle cry from Bell X1, whose 2011 album Bloodless Coup had shoehorned them into a corner from which escape was unlikely without radical action. Bell XI's Chop Chop was a radical departure from their previous album ![]()
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