All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Go West 2. In Her Disco 3. Radio Comets 4. Party Tonight 5. Emergency's About to End 6. General Electric 7. Crashing Your Planet 8. Personals 9. Reds 10. Skid Marks 11. Artificial Sunlight 12. Apartment Song
Album Notes Possum Dixon: Rob Zabrecky, Robert O'Sullivan, Celso Chavez. Additional personnel: Rich Treuel, Josh Freese, Byron Reynolds (drums); "Sneaky" Pete Tomlinson (percussion); Cathy Cooper. Recorded in Los Angeles, California in Spring 1995. Possum Dixon dive into their second major label release with all the Los Angeles-surf-New Wave energy of their first record, and then some. Backed by a new drummer, Byron Reynolds, the band sounds tighter and more cohesive than previously, lending a chic '80's pop-style twist to bassist-vocalist Rob Zabrecky's contemporary, often cryptic lyrics. On their debut album, the group's songs focused on the subject of lousy jobs. Here, they deal mainly with difficult relationships--as on "Skid Marks," when Zabrecky sings, "Well, I'm falling all over you like a bad jacket/Last night something went wrong. What the hell happened?" This kind of ironic, tongue-in-cheek view of modern romance is a running theme throughout the record. STAR MAPS combines this perspective with Possum Dixon's quirky New Wave sensibility, most notable in the Cars- and Devo-reminiscent keyboard work and the clean, strong guitar riffs. | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||||
