Get Back Loretta - Get Back Loretta

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RIYL

The Beatles Ben Folds Five Hot Hot Heat

Tracklist

1. Ninety Five
2. Caught In The Middle
3. As I Lay
4. Calling All Cars
5. Nobody Knows
6. Pretty Song

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Get Back Loretta are a band that wear their influences on their sleeves, as many among you will instantaneously recognize a nod towards a certain Liverpudlian foursome, with the band’s name referencing a McCartney penned lyric from the ever popular song “Get Back”. Get Back Loretta offer up an invigorating revisiting of 60’s/70’s pop music, infusing it with lashes of bluesy guitar, soulful rhythms, and vocals that Lennon and co. would have been far from ashamed of.

Lead singer (Bass/Acoustic guitar) Steven Bradford decided to form Get Back Loretta after a stint with the popularly burgeoning screamo tykes Waiting For Autumn, after a split over creative differences. Such a disbanding was hardly astonishing in hindsight, especially considering the entirely different sound and approach of his new outfit, Get Back Loretta. On their debut EP, Get Back Loretta have sought to create a purely infectious, hook-laden record of the poppiest proportions and have succeeded in generating a collection of songs that are surrounded by a sense of musical history, this is what pop music used to, and should sound like.

The songs on show are mid-tempo, cheery little ditties that urge listeners to tap their feet and bob their heads, without ever being fully engaged, and this is where the band tends to fall short. They never entice the listener into the tracks and tend to give off an ambience of background music, albeit extremely attractive, well composed background music. Musically, Get Back Loretta offer little that hasn’t been done before, and are guilty of paying tribute too often and failing to “push the envelope”, instead they settle for a comfortable, streamlined sound reminiscent of Ben Fold’s Five or even a toned down Hot Hot Heat.

Despite their shortcomings, Get Back Loretta have formed an album loaded with pop promise, resplendent in its simplistic, contagious rhythms and melodious, appealing vocals. Don’t be fooled, Get Back Loretta are no Beatles, but they’re certainly headed in the right direction, and considering pop music nowadays is generally un-listenable trite, perhaps it has finally found a saviour, fit to don the fab four’s steadily rusting crowns.

--Rhys Duggan

Last updated: 09/29/2009 08:53PM

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Aaron Yarborough
09/22/2005
12:37PM
Age: 30
Location
Atascadero, CA
this band is from San Diego arnt they? i heard they're close to being signed.

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monstar_serum_booster
09/22/2005
01:08PM
Location
Behind you!
They deserve to be, they're a pretty class act, if a little derivative



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sir mix-a-lot
10/15/2005
04:58PM
Location
Sacramento, CA
aaron had me listen to these guys today. i pretty much completely agree with this review. they're not bad, but they're not something that i'd give an ACTIVE listen.

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