Something I Made Up

Album Review

The second album by this Toronto-area band is a perfect compliment to the understated, intelligent melodic pop of singer/songwriters such as Michael Penn and Neil Finn. While most of the first half of the album is fairly solid and radio friendly, songs like "A Likely Story" and "I Get That All the Time" tend to veer toward the slightly harder, rockier sound of Canadian rockers the Odds. The band appears to hit pay dirt during the latter half with more introspective and catchy tunes. A gem such as "Just Be You," with its infectious, yet quirky, Beatles backbeat is surpassed only by "Few and Far Between," a tender, acoustic-tinged ballad. Perhaps hard to find, but hard to pass by upon listening.