Flying Fish Cove are a four-piece from Seattle, Washington who are defiantly twee. Jangling like there's no tomorrow, with lyrics and vocals from leader and songwriter Dena Ziber that evoke the warm joys of a lost childhood.
At Moonset, the band's debut album will definitely sort out which side of the fence you're on where this kind of Indie music is concerned. Occasionally it is just a little too limp for my personal taste although the band can be robust in support of Ziber's meditations on early life when they choose in the way that the Go Betweens were in their Eighties pomp, .
Ziber's focus is resolutely fixed on childhood throughout. She lost her mother early on and was on the receiving end of abuse and bullying thereafter. At Moonset is an attempt to recast those memories into an altogether happier topography. As the record progresses, I'm more and more persuaded into Flying Fish Cove's camp.
When listening to stuff like this I'm constantly inclined to wonder, 'What would Juno think?' She's a constant reference point when this genre raises its head on here and acts as a sound barometer of this it all. I imagine in this case she would raise her thumbs in approval.
An album that references Puff the Magic Dragon,Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie over its course is very sure of the territory it wants to claim. but this is no mere act of regression. There's a warmth and depth to the songs that I imagine would reward return visits
Ziber and her partner and Flying Fish Cove's guitarist take turns with vocals to intensify the sense that this might be the band Juno and Paulie Bleeker formed together after the film ends. At Moonset is full of childlike joys and lovely melodies. Twelve songs to wile away a happy half hour.
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