The Mary Onettes - Self-titled

The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes





By now people downloading my torrents are aware I am kind of lost in the 80s but it does not mean I don't listen to new materials, though I gotta admit I get disappointed most of the times. This was not the case with The Mary Onettes, all the way from Jonkoping, Sweden. I was so thrilled when I first listened to the CD after a friend recommended it. Actually whenever you hear these guys for the first time, more likely than not, you would guess the band to be British. Certainly while I listened to The Mary Onettes I couldn?t help to think of bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, New Order, and the Cure.



The Mary Onettes sure did pick a hell of an opening track in the ?Pleasure Songs.? The song doesn?t have the synths like the rest of the album, but has a fantastic sing-a-long feel. Second track ?Lost? is the crowning achievement on the record, a powerful mixture of sounds that recall New Order's Power & Corruption & Lies? era synths, The Cure?s ?Boy?s Don?t Cry? era guitars & bass, and vocals in the range of sir Ian Mcculloch. Next track ?Void,? reminds me a lot of the Cure's Jumping Someone Else's Train, but goes off into a different tangent somewhere where the chorus starts to kick in.



The Mary Onettes brings back the sounds of the mid 80s/early 90s without sounding totally derivative. More than likely the band will make fans of that era [like myself] smile often when hearing their songs and at their finest (Pleasure Songs / Lost) make people jump and down with excitement. Although the Mary Onette?s debut album falls into a lull somewhere in the middle portion of the record, the album does feature some amazing songs, packaged in a refreshingly well (but not over) produced manner. Recommended especially for fans of Echo & The Bunnymen / New Order / The Cure/Joy Division.







Tracklisting:



01 Pleasure Songs (4:26)

02 Lost (4:03)

03 Void (3:28)

04 The Laughter (5:25)

05 Slow (4:25)

06 The Companion (3:56)

07 Explosions (3:57)

08 Henry (4:06)

09 Under The Guillotine (3:23)

10 Still (3:39)