Phamous phaces biography

New Pop City is populated with highly competent, melodic jangle-pop and is easily the best effort yet from this Eugene, Oregon quartet, so why do I feel I want more?

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Sure, there are Rickenbackers and harmonies enough, catchy retro beats and ambitious basslines, occasional handclaps and fine musicianship all around. This is a good CD, rife with well-constructed powerpop, middle bridges and all, the kind of stuff you used to hear on radio in decades past.

Yet, my gut take on it is this: here’s a good band that could approach great with slightly better material.

Many of the songs here, though catchy, seem just one or two hooks shy of being better. Don’t get me wrong — these guys are talented, and cover a good range of pop and rock sounds in an accomplished manner. They’ve come an enormous way from their inception as a cover band in 1986.

After a few years playing the local circuit (along with various personnel changes), the group broke up in 1989 so that eac