{"id":20727,"date":"2021-03-25T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20727"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:49:59","slug":"album-review-the-tummies-930-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/album-review-the-tummies-930-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Tummies &#8212; 9:30 Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20728\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tummies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tummies.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tummies-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tummies-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>I love beat groups. Cue up anything from early Beatles to obscure \u201860s acts like freakbeat combo the Renegades (you haven\u2019t lived until you\u2019ve heard their cover of Bill Haley and His Comets\u2019 \u201cThirteen Women\u201d) to \u2013 arguably \u2013 the Smithereens, and you\u2019ll get my rapt attention. The high-energy, enthusiastic vibe wins me over almost without fail.<\/p>\n<p>And even against that backdrop, I\u2019m knocked for six upon hearing <i>9:30 Girl<\/i>, the new album from The Tummies. This five-person act out of Nashville &#8211; -no, really \u2013 gets all the details right. Driving melodies, snappy, stinging solos, sweet vocal harmonies and obligatory handclaps add up to one of the most consistently enjoyable albums I\u2019ve had the pleasure to discover in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle Blue Heart\u201d sounds like something left off <i>The Beatles\u2019 Second Album<\/i>, omitted from the soundtrack of <i>Backbeat<\/i> or <i>That Thing You Do!<\/i> And it\u2019s a reliable indicator of what the rest of the album sounds like. \u201cPuppet\u201d adds electirc sitar to the mix while still bringing the Who-level punch. The Tummies sound like early Spongetones at their rocking-est; <i>9:30 Girl<\/i> conveys the excitement of live music with the polish of the studio.<\/p>\n<p>And they mix it up, too. The title track has a lovely twin vocal, guitars that shimmer acoustically and twang electrically, and wood block percussion that will transport you to the <i>A Hard Day\u2019s Night<\/i> and <i>Help!<\/i> soundtracks. The thing is, the Tummies aren\u2019t exactly aping the Beatles \u2013 or anyone else \u2013 on these tunes; instead they\u2019re applying the values of that sort of music to their original tunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaby Blue\u201d (not the Badfinger tune) is propulsive enough to begin with, but the insistent tambourine pushes it harder, faster. The character of the songs is nicely varied within the relatively narrow confines of the band\u2019s chosen idiom. The only outlier is \u201cCollector,\u201d a lovely enough song that has an arrangement that shows just a bit of the band\u2019s Nashville identity; it almost feels like it belongs on another album, but the winning vocals (courtesy of front-couple\/songwriters Dana Radford and Judd Fuller) tie it in with the other songs on <i>9:30 Girl<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo My Eyes Deceive Me\u201d is swaying Merseybeat a la Gerry and the Pacemakers. \u201cUnder the Covers\u201d is American pop country filtered through a Liverpool sensibility, which is another way of saying that it\u2019s a cousin of the Beatles\u2019 \u201cWhat Goes On?\u201d And the band amps things up \u2013 giving the Grip Weeds a run for their money \u2013 on \u201cShort Cuttin\u2019.\u201d A brief, acoustic \u201cHoney from the Hill\u201d ends thing on a quiet note, but the overall appeal and power of the album will energize the listener. <i>9:30 Girl <\/i>is superb start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love beat groups. 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