Mowbird‘s perky toe tapper ‘Happy Active Horse Organ’ is the possessor of that quintessential quality that ALL great guitar pop holds: it uplifts with its fuzzy waves of psych tinged twanging licks, insistent rhythmic Jukebox loops, laced with chirruping keyboards. Then gut punches you to earth with its bitter sweet melodic lip curling refrains that are the meeting point of the artful craft of Pavement and the fizzy buzz of Mazes. When you’ve finally dusted yourself down and managed to gather your somewhat precarious balance this rollicking head bobber, will take involuntary control of your body compelling one jump up and down like a gibbon.
Originally out on the rather fantastic Popty-Ping records it’s lifted from the North Walian surf pop act’s smartly inventive debut album ‘Islander’ which recently came out on Shape.Go go and buy it!!
http://www.shaperecords.co.uk/mowbird