if you pull me apart dont swallow my heart/ heart!
With a band name like The Starlight Mints, you know what you are in for. Delightfully off kilter music yet oddly melodious, they specialize in songs like ' Submarine #3'. You are happily intrigued when a few playful pulls on the violin starts the song, and before you know it a bizarre smile forms on your face as you simultaneously try to go huh? and wow! when the vocals come on. Not a very easy thing to do I think.
A bit more focused and sharp than fellow pop oddballs Oklahoma mates The Flaming Lips, the Mints are masters of song arrangements that feature all sorts of instruments from trombones, cellos, trumpets to funky sound effects layered with the cheekily boyish vocals of Allan Vest, and somehow, through the whole mix of it all, end up sounding surprisingly and irresisitably simple. Part psychedelic, part groovy, part retro, as another musicblog puts them, imagine a quirky modern Beatles aptly described by a friend of mine. Whenever I put on music by the Mints, their music seem to take on a life of its own, joining you in a world that seem to just infect you, just you, a small and compact private world where things and tunes come together no matter how complicated they initially sound.
Hahh or maybe it's just the feel good vibe they do undeniably well.
The Starlight Mints - Submarine #3
Click on down to their site where they put up some of their other music too.
A bit more focused and sharp than fellow pop oddballs Oklahoma mates The Flaming Lips, the Mints are masters of song arrangements that feature all sorts of instruments from trombones, cellos, trumpets to funky sound effects layered with the cheekily boyish vocals of Allan Vest, and somehow, through the whole mix of it all, end up sounding surprisingly and irresisitably simple. Part psychedelic, part groovy, part retro, as another musicblog puts them, imagine a quirky modern Beatles aptly described by a friend of mine. Whenever I put on music by the Mints, their music seem to take on a life of its own, joining you in a world that seem to just infect you, just you, a small and compact private world where things and tunes come together no matter how complicated they initially sound.
Hahh or maybe it's just the feel good vibe they do undeniably well.
The Starlight Mints - Submarine #3
Click on down to their site where they put up some of their other music too.
Plus a bonus song from their latest album, ' Drowaton'. Is not available at HMV though, might have to hunt around at Gramaphone or some Roxy Records. If they release a first single from there, it should be ' Inside Of Me'. *singing* " Well, I don’t need your sympathy, but I could use your company."
The Starlight Mints - Inside Of Me
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