JUNE PANIC AND THE SILVER SOUND
Horror Vacui (Secretly Canadian)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is an amazing collection of wonderfully catchy tunes that are loaded with great guitar hooks, unpredictable chord changes, and clever/intelligent-without-being-a-smarty-pants lyrics. Have to say: great driving music. I put this album on just as I was crossing the one-lane Iowa-Nebraska border at 3 a.m. and ended up hitting the replay button until I was almost in radio-worthy Kansas City-means I must have listened to this about 6 times in a row. The vocals are reminiscent of Bob Dylan during his ballad phase, which is good, while the accompanying music could belong to anything from a good rock band, old fashioned country band, or even a pop band, loaded with cool twangy guitar, moody chord progressions, just the right amount of minimal percussion, and poignant bass lines.

© 2001 - Holly Day