DIED PRETTY

Title: Everydaydream
Label: Citadel (Australia)
Catalogue No: (citcd548)
Format: CD (album)
Released: October 2000
Price: $ 25.00

With the release of Everydaydream, Died Pretty continue down the path that led to their last album, Using My Gills As A Roadmap. With Wayne Connolly again at the helm, Everydaydream combines the experimentalism and new technology of Gills with the band's renowned classic pop sensibilities circa Lost and Doughboy Hollow. The drama and mystery of Ron Peno are in full flight as he delivers some of the finest vocals of his career, backed by a fluid assortment of psychedelic pop blips, beats and indulgences.

Track Listing: (47:32 m:s)

1. Misunderstood (B Myers / R Peno) (4:59 m:s)
2. Brighter Ideas (B Myers / R Peno) (3:29 m:s)
3. Special Way (B Myers / R Peno) (3:49 m:s)
4. Burning Mad (B Myers / R Peno) (5:53 m:s)
5. That Look Before (B Myers / R Peno) (3:58 m:s)
6. Here Comes The Night (B Myers / R Peno) (5:55 m:s)
7. Call Me Sir (B Myers / R Peno) (4:54 m:s)
8. Dream Alone (B Myers / R Peno) (4:27 m:s)
9. Watch Out Below (B Myers / R Peno) (5:19 m:s)
10. The Evening Shadows (B Myers / R Peno) (4:49 m:s)

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Kicking off with the timeless Died Pretty pop of Misunderstood, we move through an assortment of shimmering modern gems. Grandmaster Flash meets the Bacharach heaven of Dionne Warwick on Brighter Ideas. A velvet Peno vocal rides atop a sophisticated R&B pastiche and flows effortlessly through That Look Before. Here Comes The Night finds the band in a black 'Beach Boys Party' mode complete with some trademark soaring slide and hypnotic beats. On Burning Mad, some delicious harmonies and 70's garage rock sensibilities see the Modern Dance driven by the spiky bass of Robert Warren and the faultless rhythm of Simon Cox. Dream Alone layers a seamless, ethereal Peno over of a shiny-four-to-the-floor exercise in relentlessness. A neo-Factory excursion through some sprinted melancholia, The Evening Shadows sports serious Peno musings on 'the big picture' and finishes the record in style.