GREEN - CD PLANETS

Popis - PLANETS:
Green arrived on the alternative rock scene in the mid-80s, amidst a Chicago Renaissance that included bands like Naked Raygun, Big Black, Ministry, Jesus Lizard et al. While Green missed the major label-express that the Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, and Material Issue rode to fame and fortune, Green continued to tour in Europe and North America, and to make records. Their six previous albums (released in Holland by Megadisc) were lionized and lauded by critics and fans in the pages Trouser Press, Spin, The Village Voice, among others.
Green was offering up such frothy guitar pop as She's An Addiction and the riff-happy Up All Night; that Green could also produce something as sublime as Don't Ever Fall in Love With Someone When You're In Love With Someone Else, a strange melange of Association-style pop and Elvis Costello at his Bacharach best, proves that theyre an unfairly overlooked group. But it is Green's new music that we are here to announce. Their latest everlasting gob-stopper of rock, "The Planets," is a great leap forward in the continuing evolution of an iconic underground group. They seem to have channelled their inner Kinks on a few key tracks (cant you just hear Ray Davies singing I Just Cant Remember Your Face or Im Waiting For the Sun), with a dash of Spacemen 3 (its the planets, after all) added to the mix; there are moments of lush beauty (Little Superstar is a perfect example), and in stark contrast, a demented set of instrumentals which might (might) sound a little like a drunken Thelonius Monk working over a Style Council riff, all titled Gomez 7. When asked, the band suggested I end with this statement: "Running the gamut from bubblegum pop to jam rock to glam metal to music hall to Country and Western to film soundtrack to 70s rock, the album includes plenty of hit-material radio-fodder: I Just Can't Remember Your Face, Tonight, and You Silly Cyborg. Come to think of it, this is the last album you will ever need." All housed in a 'Deutsche Grammophone' - style sleeve with alike artwork , as if it concerns Holst composition 'The Planets".