Listening to the Bigger Lovers, it's hard not to be coaxed into worn guitar pop superlatives ("jangle," "power pop," etc.). It's also hard not to get caught up in trainspotting the group's sublime ancestry -- the way, for instance, the splashy, expansive "Emmanuelle" seems to draw equally on both Cheap Trick and Move-era Jeff Lynne. Or the way the cascading, chiming guitar figures often call to mind the Soft Boys' Kimberley Rew and the Smiths' Johnny Marr. Or the {$Robin...   [ read more ]

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After the one-two punch of the band's first two releases--2001's "How I Learned to Stop Worrying," followed by the drop-dead gorgeous pop stylings of "Honey in the Hive"--The Bigger Lovers have earned the respect of pop fans and press with their dead-on harmonies and unerring melodic sense. These guys have an obvious reverence for the Ghosts of Pop Past, yet manage to inject their carefully crafted songs with enough crunch and grit to hold their own with the best of the contemporary pop underground. After ...   [ read more ]

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Listening to the Bigger Lovers, it's hard not to be coaxed into worn {guitar pop} superlatives (jangle, {power pop}, etc.). It's also hard not to get caught up in trainspotting the group's sublime ancestry -- the way, for instance, the splashy, expansive Emmanuelle seems to draw equally on both Cheap Trick and Move-era Jeff Lynne. Or the way the cascading, chiming guitar figures often call to mind the Soft Boys' Kimberley Rew and the Smiths' Johnny Marr. Or the Robin Zander-meets-Robyn Hitchcock vocals thr...   [ read more ]

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