Capricornia is a song about Australia from an album called Europe. After Tallulah, it's Allo Darlin's second song about Australia and it similarly throbs with the ex-pat's aching longing.
The Australian theme is underscored by Capricornia's driving jangle and energy bearing a musical kinship with Sunlight In A Jar by The Lucksmiths.
You can place both those songs in the area of pop's playground marked 'offspring of I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better by The Byrds'. It's a great place to be and marks Europe as one of the albums to watch out for this year.
Allo Darlin' - Capricornia by Slumberland Records
also sounds like kirsty mccoll's "new england"
ReplyDeleteYeah, a lot of people have drawn the MacColl comparison, and not just because it was on the press release. I see where that comes from, but I hope we can all agree that it's a really good pop song in its own right.
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