THE ARROGANTS
Your Simple Beauty (Shelflife)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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Much to my dismay this band have recently packed it in. At least they ended on a high creative note. Somber, but elegant and dreamy pop by one of the few Orange County (Calif.) bands who didn't high-five the front row at their concerts. The best moments of The Red House Painters, Cocteau Twins, and very early ranberries (sans the Zombie bombast) get highlighted here, and at the end of what turns out to be too short of a cd (good sign) you're left with Lovesick, which gets an acoustic re-appraisal as an appended bonus. It's far, far, farrr better than the quick, skippity, punkish tempo the original version has as track three, and there's a line singer Jana Wittren does that I played over and over last night as I typed, rigid and wired. Maybe it was the coffee? Don't think so. Fantastic. Tortuously brief. Indispensable. [http://www.arrogants.com
or http://www.shelflife.com]

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