PINKIE
Sharon Fussy (Planting Seeds Records)
Reviewed by Erick Mertz

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I admit it I was distracted by the cover. I was more than distracted; I was ready to break with proverbial wisdom and not like the album because my immediate impression was that this was the offshoot of some bad Norwegian musical about a repressed housemaid named Sharon Fussy.

What I found surprised me, and now, in spite of the cover, I'd say that Pinkie's Sharon Fussy has rocketed to the top of my "Favorite Unexpected Album List." The fourteen songs form a line of atmospheric Beatles pop, drawing favorable comparisons to the "Good Day Sunshine" era, when everything was alright, but not quite. One moment into "Something I'll Never Be" is enough to send most listeners into a fawning palace of psychedelic reconciliation. It's a cinematic endeavor and on Sharon Fussy, every scene plays out like the last in "Lost In Translation."

Pinkie might have done better with album cover art, but right now, I'm doe-eyed and thinking back in mournful bliss about some long past time and can't muster up anything else critical to say.

© 2004 - Erick Mertz