Artist : City Reverb
Album : Lost City Folk
Genre : Electronic
Label : Dumb Angel
Date : 02-09-2009
Quality : 193kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 12
Time : 55:23 min
Size : 76.95 MB

1 Everything Will Be Alright 3:34
2 City of Lights 4:04
3 Central Heating 5:45
4 Time Side On 5:11
5 When 4:32
6 Ghetto Glamour 4:08
7 Seventy Three 3:50
8 Star Power 4:14
9 Pinsharp 7:18
10 Hedonist 4:52
11 Lover's House (Acid House) 4:58
12 Drinking Song 2:57

Produced by Chris Coco and Richard Kayvan
City Of Lights, Time Side On and Hedonist also produced by Ben Burns

I love unexpected treats. Well I suppose everyone does , but how many would view
Lost City Folk the debut album by City Reverb as an unexpected treat? Well
anyone in their right mind would. It's great.
City Reverb is a band fronted by Chris Coco, Micky Buccheri and Audrey Nugent.
Coco, D.J., producer and musician calls the music of City Reverb "Robot Soul"
which is a pretty good description all things considered. Using influences like
New Order, Kraftwerk and Velvet Underground the band created an alluring
synthesis of electronic pop, synthesized soul and low key dance with odd little
stylistic quirks thrown in for good measure.
What do I mean by that? Well on the pulsing electro funk "Central Heating " a
hoary great guitar riff suddenly hove's into view like a bellowing grizzly on
the dance floor at Stringfellows. There's some oddly out of tune trumpet too.
"Star Power" develops round a lilting piano and sibilant percussion then goes
all rock solo for the last third . "Ghetto Glamour " is like The Pet Shop Boys
remixed by One Dove, a lovely somnambulant fusion. The luxurious down tempo
strains of "Everything Will Be Alright" and the regimented catchiness of "Time
Side On" are terrific as well.
"Seventy Three" ( complete with lyrical leg up from Stephen Duffy) is a warm
harmonious wallow in nostalgia- a more straight up version of Denim .Its the
little incremental details of the songs that make Lost City Folk such an
indulgence."Pinsharp" cuts across it's syncopated percussion with eerie
keyboards, peculiar bleeps and barfs and what sounds like treated brass. "The
Drinking Song" is a surprisingly affecting ballad. "Hedonist" has a keyboard
refrain over pitter patter rhythms so irresistible I find myself whistling it at
the most inopportune moments. Like on my bike when I'm pulling up a big hill and
seriously out of breath. Not a good idea.
The vocals are nothing to write home ,or indeed anywhere else ,about and one or
two songs are a bit ...well dull I suppose but overall Lost City Folk is like I
said a true treat. I bought this album on a whim and unlike a lot of my recent
choices it was an inspired decision. "Soon this song will break your heart "
they sing on Time Side On ". Not true much on this album will make your heart
swell with joy.