Hotel Juicy Parlour [Import]

Product Description
Signed to Peter Gabriel's PRE label, Sizer Barker sound like a British more tuneful Beck, a joyful Lou Reed, a beat up Bowie, and Moby meets Coldplay. With songs and lyrics, inspired by life, love and random words and phrases from magazines. They display the pop sensibility that seems inbred for Liverpudlians ever since the Four became Fab. '..this is a strange and wonderful band. The only thing that you’re sure of is that it sounds brilliant.' - NME, 'A superb 40 minute set proves the album is to be no one-off.' Sizer Barker’s sound is a wonderful, idiosyncratic thing.' - The Guardian, 'Rolling, caressing melody brushed with keyboard electronica, tender guitars, languid male vocals and an intangible melancholy..it’s warm and comforting as teatime casserole.' - Time Out. EMI. 2004.

Hotel Juicy Parlour,Sizer Barker,EMI/Real World,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Hook-a-lishious

Hotel Juicy Parlour Sizer Barker Manufacturer: EMI/Real World ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00024YVKE Release Date: 2004-07-26

Tracks:

1. Fling Fatale
2. Man And A Woman
3. Hotel Juicy Parlour
4. Day By Day
5. We Came Up Favourite
6. Blue Ocean Yellow Sun
7. Boy A Jet
8. Climb Aboard
9. Something In The Park (Is Always Happening)
10. Bring Hope
11. Transmission Land
12. Skeleton Dude
13. Lowly Song

Album Description

Signed to Peter Gabriel's PRE label, Sizer Barker sound like a British more tuneful Beck, a joyful Lou Reed, a beat up Bowie, and Moby meets Coldplay. With songs and lyrics, inspired by life, love and random words and phrases from magazines. They display the pop sensibility that seems inbred for Liverpudlians ever since the Four became Fab. '..this is a strange and wonderful band. The only thing that you're sure of is that it sounds brilliant.' - NME, 'A superb 40 minute set proves the album is to be no one-off.' Sizer Barker's sound is a wonderful, idiosyncratic thing.' - The Guardian, 'Rolling, caressing melody brushed with keyboard electronica, tender guitars, languid male vocals and an intangible melancholy..it's warm and comforting as teatime casserole.' - Time Out. EMI. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Hook-a-lishious.......2004-12-12

I stumbled onto this band while purusing Peter Gabriel's full moon club/realworld site. I didn't realize how much I've really missed good old fashioned, well crafted pop tunes. I seem to have resigned myself to the fact that the radio mostly sucks. Though college stations play some good stuff, alot of it is too harsh for my ears to take at long sittings... I'm a big NPR listener, but then you mostly only hear jazz or classical. What ever happend to the once tuneful pop I heard on the radio as a kid?

Enter Sizer Barker... quirky yet melodic, lush yet simple, retro yet modern, light yet dark, aloof yet present.... this British pop band shows that some folks still know how to craft good tunes. It's all there, tight harmonies, guitar hooks to die for... hailing from Liverpool (is it something in the water there?) songwriter and singer Carl Brown sounds to me like a cross between John Lennon and Elvis Costello and he seems to be just as tuneful, (I almost have to stop myself from trying to turn the CD over to play side B a' la my fav LPs) But don't get me wrong, this is no Beatles wanna-be-band. Although the melodic sensibility and playfulness are there in spades, there's still a uniqe stamp, and you'll find yourself waking up with a tune in your head. If you've forgotten how you felt before you burned out on "Rubber Soul" or "Sgt. Pepper" give this a try, meanwhile I'll be getting by with a little help from my friends, Sizer Barker. (...now if only radio programmers would get a clue)

P.S. For a taste, the entire album is streaming on the band's web site, though in sufficent enough Lo-Fi to entice you to buy the record, you can tell it's immaculately produced. (You need a DSL connection to listen in) Hopefully, this record will soon become more availiable stateside. Go to http://prerecords.co.uk/sizerbarker/

Average customer rating:

Hotel Juicy Parlour Sizer Barker Manufacturer: EMI/Real World ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002F1A9S Release Date: 2004-11-08

Tracks:

1. Fling Fatale
2. Man & A Woman
3. Hotel Juicy Parlour
4. Day By Day
5. We Came Up Favourite
6. Blue Ocean Yellow Sun
7. Boy A Jet
8. Climb Aboard
9. Something In The Park (Is Always Happening)
10. Bright Hope
11. Transmission Land
12. Skeleton Dude
13. Lowly Song

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1. In the Night Time
2. In the Zone
3. Introspection [Import] [Original recording remastered]
4. I-Town Records Compilation
5. I've Got the Rock N Rolls Again [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
6. Jackie Blue
7. Japanese Sound
8. Just for a Thrill [Import]
9. King Karma
10. Kings of Oblivion [Import] [Original recording remastered]

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