While not as poppy sounding as Ultraphonic Hiss, From Dayton With Love is still very much more accessible than the band's messy first record, Superdeluxe. Highlights include a few keyboards and violins among the usual distorted guitars, and there's also a cool instrumental or two, proving that Morella's Forest isn't just "Sydney & the band." Also here is a slower version of Kim Wilde's "Kids in America." Why hasn't this band been more widely noticed than they are? Ya got me!
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7ball #20Reviewed by Dan MacIntosh"Will you join us for a ride to the Moon?" asks Morella's Forest vocalist Sydney Rentz in "Bounty Hunter." It's a logical query, since From Dayton With Love is filled with space-age garage pop for the "now" generation. Rentz is a stunning hostess throughout these 10 sci-fi lullabies. Her fluid voice morphs into an innocent school girl one moment, then a bored supermodel the next. The band keeps…The Phantom Tollbooth 1998Reviewed by Brett MacAlpineThere was some talk in the months before the release of From Dayton With Love suggesting that Morella's Forest would be incorporating lots of new electronic sounds into the mix. False alarm, everybody. This is not the next Garbage album. In spite of a few quirky keyboard sounds, which are a new thing for this group, inside this album beats the heart of a good old four piece band. There isn't a…Similar sounding releases
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