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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Velvet Crush's second album is an old-fashioned pop record: 12 songs in 40 minutes, filled with ultra-melodic guitar hooks and simple, memorable melodies. While it's traditional in form, the music on Teenage Symphonies to God isn't retro. Velvet Crush manage to inject a real enthusiasm and freshness in the standard three-minute pop song, whether they're playing originals that sound like forgotten classics ("Time Wraps Around You," "This Life is Killing Me," "My Blank Pages," "Hold Me Up") or forgotten classics themselves (Gene Clark's "Why Not Your Baby" and Matthew Sweet's "Something's Gotta Give"). With a crisp, warm production from Mitch Easter, Teenage Symphonies to God is one record that deserves to take its title from Brian Wilson.

Tracks

1 Hold Me Up Borchardt, Chastain, Menck 2:59
2 My Blank Pages Borchardt, Chastain, Menck 3:30
3 Why Not Your Baby Clark 4:49
4 Time Wraps Around You Borchardt, Chastain, Menck 4:13
5 Atmosphere Chastain, Menck, Underhill 3:53
6 #10 Borchardt, Chastain, Menck 2:24
7 Faster Days Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy ... 4:38
Composed by: Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy, Menck
8 Something's Gotta Give Sweet 5:52
9 This Life Is Killing Me Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy ... 2:51
Composed by: Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy, Menck
10 Weird Summer Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy ... 3:52
Composed by: Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy, Menck
11 Star Trip Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy ... 4:17
Composed by: Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy, Menck
12 Keep on Lingerin' Borchardt, Chastain, Duffy ... 2:29



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