The Heavy Blinkers

The Heavy Blinkers - The Night and I Are Still So Young

Genre: Indie Pop / Sunshine Pop / Chamber Pop

Based in...: Canada

Label: Endearing

Year: 2004

My Rate: 7/10

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Although I think this record got a bit repetitive melodies, there are some beautiful tracks that worths a listen like Unseasonably Sad and Filtered Light. The great Indie Pop Heaven blog has posted their second, The Heavy Blinkers, check it out here.

Review from AMG:

The Heavy Blinkers' fourth album is their lushest, most luscious record yet. The group has always been a sonic treat, but here the album is positively bathed in epic luxury. In fact, The Night and I Are Still So Young achieves twice what the Polyphonic Spree does with half as many members and 1/100th the hype. Much like on that band's record, each song here floats on waves of sweeping strings, blaring horns, massed harmony vocals, and bathtubs full of reverb, but unlike them there is a sweetness about the Heavy Blinkers, an easy grace which results in a perhaps less shocking and exuberant listening experience but also a richer one. Enough of the comparisons though: The Night and I Are Still So Young is a wonderful modern pop record that stands up to repeated listens, and given the right exposure could vault the group to the top of the chamber/intelligent pop heap. In the likely case that doesn't happen, at least be one of the few who fall under the spell of the autumnal charms of the record.