Big Orange Crayonmusical thingsthe Cherry Orchard This World is Such a Groovy Place Riviera Disques - distributed by Darla in the USA Sometimes the world gives the impression that it is not a safe place for beautiful orchistrated pop music. It throws awful bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit (or however the heck it's spelled - what is it with these bands and replacing the letter 'c' with the letter 'k' anyway? Are they trying to be German or are they just dumb?) into the mainstream and suddenly everything looks like it's all about testosterone and screaming and there's simply no room for melody. The Cherry Orchard doesn't seem to believe a word of it. They know that the world is, in fact, groovy. Therefore, they go out and make wonderful retro pop without an ounce of aggression or anger and instead focus on things like love and beauty, all the will bringing about the feeling of walking around in tan and orange airport surrounded by people in afros and facial hair (or maybe that's just from the cover art). Regardless, this kind of music has the ability to get it's sugar covered, sticky hands all over you and hold you forever, making you want nothing else but to live your life in it's loving embrace, the obvious end result being that the starry-eyed pop kids are going to bring our civilization back from the brink of retard-metal oblivion. Um, anyway. This is a lovely album. The instrumentation is beautiful in that retro, kitchy kind of way with xylophones and horns and such accompanied by boy/girl vocals and lots of love. Sometimes it reminds me of Club 8 and sometimes it reminds me of St. Christopher, and that's never a bad thing, right? So yeah, unless you really have something against orchestrated pop music, you will probably be able to get into this. And after listening to it, you'll just have a strong urge to go over to that kid with the rich parents that always wears Korn shirts and give him a big hug and show him that it's ok not to be angry about everything. Be careful. Total score: 752 out of 752 |