The Strange Flowers "Aereoplanes In The Backyard" 2008

TOP ITALIAN PSYCH-GARAGE-POP heroes since the mid-late 80's! This is one of their latest effort, a fab early P. Floyd meets E. Prunes with hints of a dark-edged powerpop! BRILLIANT ALBUM! A MUST HAVE!!!
Imagine an amalgam of a psychedelic R.E.M. and the Grapes of Wrath, and you’ve got the Strange Flowers from Italy. More straight-ahead rock than garage, their music is nevertheless flavored with some way-out influences. Check out the the title track, a pretty decent slice of psychedelia — with minimal effects. The Strange Flowers employ tremelo and wah-wah guitar with distortion (rather than fuzz and farfisa), for a melodic contemporary sound.
Meanwhile, the rockin’ and swirling “Clouds of Blonde Girls”– with its hint of Stone Temple Pilots in the chorus — wouldn’t have sounded too out of place on any American college radio station. “Tomorrow You’ll be Alone” sounds like early Blur, when they were rocking out.
If you’re looking for a more contemporary edged band with a very slight psychedelic edge, then these guys are perfect. The Strange Flowers were one most different sounding of all the bands in the Misty Lane/Teen Sound Records stable of talent at that time.
Steve Elliot (Shindig,U.T., M.L. Magazine)

trax:
01 Aereoplanes In The Backyard 02 Tomorrow You'll Be Alone 03 Children Don't Mind 04 Yellow Of Sun 05 Helen Says 06 My Girl Goes Shine 07 Flaming Mirrors 08 Clouds Of Blond Girls 09 You Don't Know 10 Everyone Has A Spot In The Sunshine