Two San Diego Band’s Myspace Tracks Reviewed

By Andrew Napoli

The Moviegoers and Writer

Writer has four songs available to listen to on their myspace page (http://myspace.com/writer.) Two of the songs are from Writer’s 2006 release: Cover Your Tracks and two are from a recently released 7 inch (vinyl!): Don’t Wake the Sun. “Friend” is the best of the two tracks from their 2006 endeavor. The drum work and picked acoustic guitar lay a nice bed of leaves in which the rest of the instrumentation reclines. The title track from the 7 inch is a catchy song about a beer-goggle evening that will last forever as long as no one disturbs the sun. “I Think She Died” floats out of an early morning fog with no lighthouse to guide us safely back to shore. Check it out on myspace or buy it on vinyl!

The Moviegoers have been making music in one incantation or another since 2004. The songs on their myspace page (http://myspace.com/themoviegoers) reveal a band in the midst of developing its sound. The vocals alternate from male to female but not until “Love is Like and Aeroplane” do we really hear the lead vocalists share some space with each other and it is a welcome development. They show some force with “Dreaming or in Delirium” and “SS Vaseline” with guitars that sound plugged into an electric fence and vocals calling from an open field on the other side. Too often though the thin keyboard sound belies the power of the songs. Their diversity warrants inspection of their new CD: Or the Gun.

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