Con Law

Generationals
Park The Van Records
General | Aug 2009

Reviews

DJ Doublestuf
Reviewed 2009-11-29
Con Law-The Generationals
Smart brit-pop smacking like a more organic version of The Flaming Lips’s poppier moments. It’s an old beast with a young bite. Borrowing heavily from old school pop that shuffles and clangs with reverb drenched gang vocals, Con Law does not pretend to be a new animal you’ve never seen. But its trumpets, hand claps, shouts, tambourines, organs, and ooing and ahhing sure bite a good savory chunk out of the 60s to place at our feet. Interestingly, in a lot of songs in the second half of the record, the drum kit and instrumentation completely changes, sounding a lot like early 80s pop. The crafty lyrics are goofy enough to make you smile yet clever enough to leave teeth marks when they play with us. The dual male vocal team, although typical, keeps you pretty jumpy. Throw this old dog a bone and I promise you’ll have plenty of fun. NO FCCs detected. Picks 4, 2, 7. DJ Doublestuf
1. bells, trumpets, shuffle and cool delay effects
2. **damn catchy, acoustic guitar jam reminiscent of a stripped down version of The Shins
3. gooffy lyrics, a summer by the pool pop track
4. ***dancy, disco, the bee gees are back and it’s good fun
5. electric organ chillfest
6. sounds like 80s pop. Extra produced vocals with something that sounds like a synthesized harmonica
7. *sounds like groove orientated new wave. Very cool
8. a haunting hybrid dittie
9. a john lennonish piano, organ jam with some trumpet thrown in
10. filler ender

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Charting

2009-12-06 — 2010-02-07
Week EndingAirplays
Feb 7 2
Jan 31 3
Jan 24 2
Jan 17 4
Jan 10 3
Dec 20 4
Dec 13 4

Track listing

1. Nobody Could Change Your Mind
2. Angry Charlie
3. Faces In The Dark
4. When They Fight They Fight
5. Our Time 2 Shine
6. Wildlife Sculpture
7. Bobby Beale
8. Exterior Street Day
9. It Keeps You Up
10. These Habits