Cheese - Enlarge Your Johnson
by Geraint Jones
published: 5 / 6 / 2005
Label:
Pink Hedgehog
Format: CD
intro
Superior quality pop recorded on miniscule budget and over eight year period in sheds and attics from British act Cheese
You’d have to go back as far as 1997 to trace the first outlines made in the creation of this excellent album. It’s been a long road from the laying down of those initial drum tracks but never truer has the old maxim been that great oaks from little acorns grow. Essentially focused around Marco Rossi, who wrote all the material for ‘Enlarge Your Johnson’, the Cheese line-up has been augmented with some of the UK’s finest, albeit mostly unsung, purveyors of quality pop, including several members of the Lucky Bishops. Although ‘Enlarge Your Johnson’ is the band’s debut album proper, it was actually preceded by the wittily titled ‘Let It Brie’ in 2002, a collection of the band’s demos recorded between 1994 and 1997. Failing to resist the temptation to further those obvious analogies, with ‘Enlarge You Johnson’, Cheese have delivered an album that’s mature, sharp, full of bite and damned near irresistible. Lyrically intriguing, musically captivating and vocally spine-tingling, the rewards on offer here are abundant. No doubt recorded on a miniscule budget, the band admits that the album was “recorded entirely in our sheds and attics, very fitfully indeed” the results assuredly demonstrate it’s not how big, but what you do with it that counts. ‘Enlarge Your Johnson’ indeed! If what you’re seeking in an album is silky smooth harmonies, cascading guitars, inventive arrangements and tunes galore then you’ve definitely come to the right place. Admittedly, they’ve taken their time – this isn’t flat-packed self assembly pop, but quality craftsmanship and should rightly be lauded as such. ‘Enlarge Your Johnson' is a genuinely euphoric 24 carat pop gem that positively demands your time and investment…so what are you waiting for?!
Track Listing:-
1 Gurl Alone2 Zero And Counting You Down
3 Kid Gloves
4 Underworld
5 Nothing To See
6 Everyone's On To You
7 Sea Fret
8 Why She's Not A Millionaire
9 The Trail's Gone Cold
10 Fallen From The Sun
12 Wax Museum
Label Links:-
http://www.pinkhedgehog.com/https://en-gb.facebook.com/Pink-Hedgehog-Records-195934540420844/
http://www.last.fm/label/Pink+Hedgehog+Records
https://www.youtube.com/user/PinkHedgehogRecords
reviews |
Let It Brie (2003) |
Catchy high-grade compilation from long-serving Brit powerpoppers Cheese, which draws from their years between 1994 and 1997 |
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