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EpicureThe Goodbye Girl MGM Listen to the first track of Epicure's 'The Goodbye Girl' and you'll buy the album. That's not to say that the rest of the disc is good or bad, but simply that the opening title track is one of the most amazing piano ballads in the world today. It's the sort of thing that you can listen to over and over again. That said, let's get onto the album. If you know anything about Epicure, you'll know they're a rock band (cf. Feet From Under Me) with acoustic tendencies (cf. Calm), who released an album a couple of years ago that was more or less ignored, but who came back strongly with the single Armies Against Me about a year ago. That song appears on this album in the coveted number two spot, followed by fellow radio favourite Firing Squad. By now you may have realised that the big rock element shown in their debut single (Feet From Under Me) has all but disappeared on this, favouring the soothing but involving vocals of Juan Alban. There's still a spattering of distorted guitar, but there is definitely some Neil Young-inspired acoustica going on here, and that's not a bad thing at all - a maturing, if you will. So Broken is a good solid rock song, and Life Sentence (you've probably heard that one on the Js, it's the one with the nice slide guitar intro) brings you into the mood of the second half of the album (Self Destruct In 5 is a damn good song, too). I predict you're going to hear a lot more of this new-wave acoustic folk with distorted rock guitar stuff and this is as good an introduction as any. Very nice.  |
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