Now this is defiantly odd. Not the kind of record you really expect to hear in 2021. An album called Now Where Were We, from Arizona band The Exbats which feels like the biggest dose of unremitting cheesiness since the last time you sat down and watched The Partridge Family or The Brady Bunch.
A band formed around a father and daughter team, which, let's face it, is not something you come across every day. Exbats also seem to take inspiration from bands like The Go Gos, The Waitressess and Martha & the Muffins, from back in the day when bands were carefree happy, and didn't bother to hide the fact. I also heard some of Black Lips goofy harmonising here on occasions. Also of course, no end of the Sixties.
Because Where Were We is certainly goofy. It's as All American as apple pie, and corny as a field of maize. There's a song called I Don't Trust Myself Around Jesus here. All wholesome as can be you can be assured. Though I did think I heard some liberal use of the 'f' word at one point. Surely an abberation!
Determinedly retro but the tunes stand up just as Partridge Family or Brady Bunch ones did way back in the day. You may not make it all the way through the record, you should get the idea a few tunes in. But you can be fairly sure that the songs you don't hear are just as sturdy as the ones you do. I stayed with it and can certainly assure you of that. Neat record.
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