DAVE GRANEY - LABURNUM OF THE MIND

Dave Graney and Clare Moore would call their new album, Laburnum Of The Mind , a rock album.

“When we say “rock” I guess we would be thinking of The Doors, Wire, Urge Overkill, Steely Dan, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Replacements, Pulp, Roxy Music The Fall, The Blue Oyster Cult and those kinds of tones. Those kinds of lyrical flights and suspensions. Bo Diddley and Latin beats and diminished and augmented chords. Expensive inversions. Flash stuff. Though there is also a lot of dumb, irrational, loose and goofy as well”.

The first seven tracks are all pretty upbeat and in the pocket grooves. Backbeats abound. Then it gets freaky with the title track, Laburnum Of The Mind and the diss song from out of time, Little Bands Suck.