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    HM Magazine #93/Spy Glass Blue
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    Spy Glass Blue

    Loud As Feathers

    (2002)

    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

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    Label Accidental SirensHM Magazine #93January/February 2002
    art rockgothic rocknew wavepost-punk

    Good pop music always makes you feel young. You want to dance and spin and bounce like no one is watching. Even if Spy Glass Blue is tipping their musical hat to old (genius) rockers like Bowie, Loud As Feathers makes me feel early teenage years young again. I caught myself dancing and prancing around the office like the Lester Bangs character in Almost Famous. This stuff is jive! One spin of the lead-off track, "Light Machine," will have you devoted, and a listen of "Ophelia" will have you remembering its hook forever, and making your Grammy nominations early.

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