The Shirts - Street Light Shine (1979) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: The Shirts
- Title: Street Light Shine
- Year Of Release: 1979
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop, Rock
- Quality: FLAC 24/96000; 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:42:32
- Total Size: 269; 887 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Review by Mark Deming
The Shirts ably demonstrated they were a smarter and more musically ambitious band than many of their peers at CBGB (if not as self-consciously arty as Television and Patti Smith) with their self-titled debut album, but their reach began to exceed their grasp on their second LP, 1979's Street Light Shine. Mike Thorne was once again in the producer's chair, but while the first album sounded clean and straightforward, Street Light Shine features several extra layers of studio polish; the subtle use of strings and woodwinds on "Out on the Ropes" and the campy lounge jazz accents of "Milton at the Savoy" were new wrinkles for the band, and tunes like "Don't You Hesitate" and "Triangulum" lean toward radio-friendly, midtempo mainstream rock despite their eccentric lyrics. Annie Golden's vocals here strike a middle ground between mock-operatic bombast and classic Brill Building pop, and the musicians play with a sturdy professionalism that sadly lacks some of the energy and spirit of the debut. "Laugh and Walk Away" and "Starts with a Handshake" prove the band was still capable of delivering the kind of nervy but approachable new wave pop that made the first album memorable, but the Shirts' greater interest on Street Light Shine seems to lie in the grand-scale conceits of the prog-influenced "Outside the Cathedral Door" and the atmospheric vocalese coda of "Kensington Gardens," and while few of their peers on the early New York underground scene could have come up with something as eclectic as this, most of them would have scrapped much of it as pretentious and poorly focused; the band's skill and vision here is admirable, but the results lack the excitement and focus of their best work.
Tracklist:
01-01 The Shirts - Laugh And Walk Away [3:05]
01-02 The Shirts - Love Is A Fiction [2:39]
01-03 The Shirts - Don't You Hesitate (Hold Me) [3:52]
01-04 The Shirts - Milton At The Savoy [2:51]
01-05 The Shirts - Ground Zero [2:43]
01-06 The Shirts - Triangulum [5:39]
01-07 The Shirts - Out On The Ropes [3:50]
01-08 The Shirts - Starts With A Handshake [2:33]
01-09 The Shirts - Can't Cry Anymore [2:42]
01-10 The Shirts - I Feel So Nervous [3:30]
01-11 The Shirts - Outside The Cathedral Door [5:29]
01-12 The Shirts - Kensington Gardens [3:38]
The Shirts ably demonstrated they were a smarter and more musically ambitious band than many of their peers at CBGB (if not as self-consciously arty as Television and Patti Smith) with their self-titled debut album, but their reach began to exceed their grasp on their second LP, 1979's Street Light Shine. Mike Thorne was once again in the producer's chair, but while the first album sounded clean and straightforward, Street Light Shine features several extra layers of studio polish; the subtle use of strings and woodwinds on "Out on the Ropes" and the campy lounge jazz accents of "Milton at the Savoy" were new wrinkles for the band, and tunes like "Don't You Hesitate" and "Triangulum" lean toward radio-friendly, midtempo mainstream rock despite their eccentric lyrics. Annie Golden's vocals here strike a middle ground between mock-operatic bombast and classic Brill Building pop, and the musicians play with a sturdy professionalism that sadly lacks some of the energy and spirit of the debut. "Laugh and Walk Away" and "Starts with a Handshake" prove the band was still capable of delivering the kind of nervy but approachable new wave pop that made the first album memorable, but the Shirts' greater interest on Street Light Shine seems to lie in the grand-scale conceits of the prog-influenced "Outside the Cathedral Door" and the atmospheric vocalese coda of "Kensington Gardens," and while few of their peers on the early New York underground scene could have come up with something as eclectic as this, most of them would have scrapped much of it as pretentious and poorly focused; the band's skill and vision here is admirable, but the results lack the excitement and focus of their best work.
Tracklist:
01-01 The Shirts - Laugh And Walk Away [3:05]
01-02 The Shirts - Love Is A Fiction [2:39]
01-03 The Shirts - Don't You Hesitate (Hold Me) [3:52]
01-04 The Shirts - Milton At The Savoy [2:51]
01-05 The Shirts - Ground Zero [2:43]
01-06 The Shirts - Triangulum [5:39]
01-07 The Shirts - Out On The Ropes [3:50]
01-08 The Shirts - Starts With A Handshake [2:33]
01-09 The Shirts - Can't Cry Anymore [2:42]
01-10 The Shirts - I Feel So Nervous [3:30]
01-11 The Shirts - Outside The Cathedral Door [5:29]
01-12 The Shirts - Kensington Gardens [3:38]
Pop | Rock | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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