Barnacle Bill: Press

The silky, smooth, easy-listening side to power pop(Nada Soft, The Go-Betweens, Frisbie), but the Barnacle Bill is not band `o softies, knowing when to turn the volume up bringing to mind Deathray Davies, Weezer and Ulitimate Fakebook. There are two lead singers sharing duties here and both are intoxicating, filling you with the beautiful sounds they create, while the rest of the band captures the essence and creates a lush pop backdrop for you to dwell in as their voices smoothe you over. Deep within their delicate and delicious pop songs, flawlessly melodious guitars and vocals scintillate and mesh, leaving a swath of harmony and brightness in their wake.

CD of the Day, 2/17/06: Barnacle Bill-Towards The Pebbled Shore

Avast ye maties! Yar, today's CD for ye is Barrrrnacle Bill's Towards The Pebbled Shore. (When I picked this one out a week or so back, I promised myself I wouldn't go with the pirate talk. But I'm weak, I tell you, weak.) BB is a 3-piece out of NYC featuring two principal singer/songwriters: Yianni Naslas and Stu Klinger. I've always considered it a good thing for a band to have at least two creative voices of relatively equal ability; instead of getting one guy's sixth to tenth-best tracks, for example, you get a different guy's best five. The ultimate example of this dynamic was The Beatles.....