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"Finding a suitable place in the world: a thankless task for the dreamer. Luckily, abstract ideas can solidify in art with more grace than reality. And if one can only follow the cautious lead of Love-cars' James Diers, somewhere amidst gravity-defying melodies and grounded, contemplative lyricism (which still manages to walk on air), the wanderer can settle. [THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME WHAT I ALREADY KNOW] just might place them toe to intrepid toe with the icy and unrelenting present tense. Diers' own sonic zeitgeist encompasses not only an adolescent yearning for validation, as in the anthemic 'Let's Start a Band,' and the young upstart's declaration 'The Food Chain,' but also rationalizes mature relationships. His swelling vocals are earnest, choosing several refrains that ring like mantras for the underdog. ... The culminating 'Glad I Bumped into You in a Dream' finds fodder, 'listening to Dark Side of the Moon, while making love in a gorilla suit.' If Diers' black and blue-eyed soul doesn't sound your alarm, the grinding start/stop guitars, avant drum-major licks and samples will hold you, if only momentarily. Like a good dream." (Minnesota Daily, January 2002) |
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