I remember hearing this band a few months ago on MYSPACE.com and hearing their song “Living So Well.” I was hinted out by a fellow writer to their MYSPACE and was told that they just might be up my ally. But as usual my optimism was never really too high. But to my surprise the pillow muffled vocals and the jangly guitars caught me. Reminded by a few acts I listened to growing up such as The Zombies, The Beach Boys, The Turtles, The Byrds and a slew of other “The” pop groups, The Crayon Fields fit perfectly right in.
The rest of the album follows suit. With “bum bum bops” and “wooo ahhhs” followed by more sun shiny good morning tunes that seem to have been resurrected from the psychedelic 60’s of California and the isles of Britain, The Crayon Fields’s album Animal Bells is full of nostalgic tunes you’d expect from a record you play after blowing off the dust that built after decades of hiding in your grandfather’s basement.
From the simple chorus duets of “Lovely Time,” hand claps in “Impossible Things,” chimes in “Do It First,” The Crayon Fields simply perform and create pop music that their contemporaries sort of miss out on when recording their versions of wall of sound pop. So incessantly nostalgic are the songs that The Crayon Fields create that a song like “Back, Front, Side, Low, High” would easily be mistaken for something heard around the fireplace while the cold winter snowed during the 60s in a suburbia somewhere.
It’s curious that there was never an Australian invasion. Having already toured with the likes of The Unicorns, Jens Lekman, Electrelane, Deerhoof, Calvin Johnson, Kelly Stoltz and Architecture in Helsinki and just to name some, The Crayon Fields have their eyes set on landing on US shores to bring their brand of pop to entice the masses.
MP3(s): “Living So Well” “Choir Of Tiny Boys“
Website: www.thecrayonfields.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/thecrayonfields
Purchase: Animal Bells
Label: Chapter Music, Trifekta
The Swedish collective (of 29) who invoke hailing from Barcelona procures the same whimsical pop of collective rival The Polyphonic Spree do. The only thing that make differentiate the two collectives may be the subtle charm the Swedes always seem to bring along in their sense of pop music.
