Pocketbooks - Flight Paths

  by Tommy Gunnarsson

published: 7 / 7 / 2009

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Pocketbooks are a 5-piece pop group, based in London and formed sometime in 2006, when singer Emma Hall finally managed to assemble all the future members of the band, including the other singer, Andy Hudson, who also plays the keyboards. The first time you could hear them on a piece of plastic, was on the London club/record label, How Does It Feel To Be Loved? compilation CD, 'Kids at the Club', which was released the same year the band formed. Since then, there have been some more compilation appearances, a 7” single and an EP, and now the time has come for their debut album, 'Flight Paths'. The label, the aforementioned How Does It Feel To Be Loved? talks about them as a good old, classic indiepop band, in the same vein as the Housemartins, the Sundays and Everything But The Girl, and I can see what they are talking about. This is… well, classic indiepop, which is both good and bad. The good part is that the tunes are very good, and so are the lyrics, but the bad thing about it is that it sounds exactly like thousands of other bands through the years, and I don’t think I will remember this album when the calendar tells me that it’s the year 2010. Which is sad, really, as it’s a pretty good album.

Track Listing:-

1 Footsteps
2 Fleeting Moments
3 Camera Angles
4 The Outskirts of Town
5 Cross the Line
6 Skating On Thin Ice
7 Sweetness and Light
8 I'm Not Going Out
9 Every Good Time We Ever Had
10 Paper Aeroplanes
11 All We Do Is Rush Around

Band Links:-

http://www.pocketbooks.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Pocketbooks-6659789638/
https://twitter.com/pocketbooks
http://pocketbooks.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/andypocketbooks#p/f/0/XZcI1lVFjrI
http://www.songkick.com/artists/627376-pocketbooks

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