As a fresh pair of ears an ocean away, let me say this: “Get Around Town” clearly earned whatever airwave oversaturation it achieved. From the cheekily plucked, hollow-bodied guitar intro to the complex, almost madrigal-style three-part-harmonies, to the delightfully obtuse lyric (“it’s the body countdown, the body counts down”) to the tossed-off effortlessness with which the whole thing is delivered, “Get Around Town” is about as perfect as radio pop can get. The band brings unbridled energy—yet with an understated sense of self-control—to their material, like a Supergrass if Gaz Coombes’ idols had been Belle & Sebastian instead of the Buzzcocks. Miraculously, any preciousness is somehow left behind in childhood music lessons. Sure, Revolver has a cellist. But he’s a cellist who gets his instrumental freak on, thank you very much.
The band successfully sustains the many musical charms of “Get Around Town” throughout their full-length (albeit 25-minute) debut, “Music For A While.” The title references 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell, and, while I’m at it, yes, the band is named after the Beatles’ 1966 studio masterpiece—but despite the band’s giddy name-checks, the focus is on the songs (in particular, those gorgeous, textured vocal harmonies), not the cleverness that surrounds them. At least three other songs have the catchiness quotient of “Get Around Town” and the potential to follow it into radio intransience. Those angry comment-posting haters have their work cut out for them.
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