[.ca] All Our Summer Songs

You make angels out of airplanes:
In direct response to the review posted by "Scott Heisel," the songs on this album are most certainly NOT straightforward pop songs that sound like they're actually from the sixties - on the contrary, they're a brilliant blend of motown and good old indie rock, sweet lullabies and love songs and tracks that make you want to jump up and down and eat popsicles. And the huge assortment of musicians and instruments on the album is not a problem, but rather a tribute to Fred's style and ethic - this is truly a collaborative project, drawing on sources from all over. This is an amazing album.

every night you fall asleep / with your headphones on:
This is a solid album that just keeps getting better with every listen. It's got more hooks than a tacklebox. The production style is a throwback to the early 60's, and it works beautifully. Try and track down the LP - clear vinyl and two extra tracks.

awesome record:
This is a really, really great album. For genuine music lovers, this is a must-have. The songs have an awesome catchy hook to it, the voices are amazing, and the lo-fi places you in a different world apart from all the generic music that's out there.

Puzzling.:
So there's this band called Saturday Looks Good To Me, right? They're from Michigan, and they're the brainchild of Fred Thomas \oof Lovesick, His Name Is Alive, and many more\c. The basic premise of said band seems to be "let's play fairly straightforward 60's-esque pop songs and record them in a vintage style, making people think they really *are* fairly straightforward pop songs actually from the 60's." Yeah, it's kind of confusing, but it's the best explanation I can come up with. The cast of musicians on this record \oalmost 30 strong in all\c feature some of indie rock's notables like Ted Leo and Tara Jane O'Neill contributing vocals, but the album is so confusingly put together that I have no idea who plays or sings what where. Each of the album's 13 tracks sound like they are from a time capsule that was buried under Motown Records in the early sixties. While each of these songs contain that vintage sound \owhich really makes me wonder how Fred recorded these songs\c, they are unique enough from each other in most cases. The upbeat numbers are here, the ballads are here, the just plain "artsy" tracks are here, and somehow they all seem to coalesce into an easy-to-swallow album. My biggest complaint about the disc is that each song runs into another - that is, there is no down time between songs, but no segues either. One ends and another begins without even a split second in between them. Maybe Fred was going for a "turning the dials of a radio" effect, in which case I applaud him; if he just decided to do the sequencing like this just to be difficult, then I should punch him in the gut. If you're into sensitive indie rock like Belle and Sebastian or well-produced and well-orchestrated stuff like "Pet Sounds"-era Beach Boys, this album is right up your alley. I can see audiophiles all over the place perking their ears up as this CD plays out, almost wishing they could hear the grooves of the well-worn vinyl through their stylus but instead being disappointed that recordings this well-crafted are on a compact disc format. But for us normal listeners, we'll just sit here and wonder "how in the hell did this band open on the Saves The Day tour last fall and not just get murdered by their fans?"

Cute and fun music with great hooks:
Even though retro-rock is really taking a step forward for music, it doesn't really matter to me right now because I know something good will come out soon and blow us all away and start a new revolution, but until then this band is probably one of the best out there. This review is only for fans of indie pop though, as their music is nowhere near the mainstream no matter how catchy and fun the songs are. I gave the album 5 stars, but if I had the ability I would give it a 9 out of 10. They are not the best band in existence, but they are a damn good one. Just because a majority of their sound is borrowed from one time period doesn't make it bad at all. I only hope that one day they reissue this bands back catalog that sadly has not been released yet and is out of print. If you like indie pop in general you should buy this record.

• Meet Me by the Water
• Underwater Heartbeat
• Ambulance
• Sun Doesn't Want to Shine
• Caught
• All Our Summer Songs
• No Good With Secrets
• Alcohol
• You Work All Weekend
• Typing
• Ultimate Stars
• Last Hour