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EVERY KIND OF LIGHT
RYKODISC
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Although this Seattle outfit holds the belt as one of the finest pop bands of the ’90s, critics still claim that the Posies are too soft, too unplugged, or too limp. The conventional advice: buy the 1993 Don Fleming–produced Frosting on the Beater and forget the rest. But any band with songwriters who are as gifted as Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow and who harmonize on each other’s tunes so naturally deserve props, if only for persevering in the face of shrinking audiences and zero airplay. With its opulent pop, Every Kind of Light is mellower than Frosting on the Beater or the punkish Amazing Disgrace; yet it moves in ways that too few contemporary bands are capable of. Wearing their pop-preservationist influences openly, Auer and Stringfellow recall the Who ("I Finally Found a Jungle I Like"), Prefab Sprout ("Last Crawl"), Moody Blues/CSN ("Anything and Everything"), and as always, the Beatles ("That Don’t Fly"). Not bad for a band of long-haired wusses.
