The Truth

Listen..isn't it funny how the best stuff is always in front of you but you don't see it and hardly never hear it!!The Eisenhowers have brought back Brit-pop in their own inimitable style with almost Half-Undressed and your ears deserve to hear it brothers and sisters.
Verbose verbalist and composed compositionist Raymond Weir has served up the best fun and sounds you can hear while wearing somebody elses clothes with this offerring.

The lyrics are both sharp and sensitive to the times and will jangle both your nerves and your unfunny-bones with the acerbic truths they serve up.Try the anti-religious godlike 'Plastic-Jesus' to hear how we truly worship in the post-God age or if you really miss the Beatles chill-out to 'Jigsaw' and 'Novelty Act' then update your wish-list!You have to admire a group who can stand-in McCartney's shoes,peer at a lost generation through Costello's specs and experiment with Brit-pop'sstill cooling corpse!Half-Undressed?-most likely...fully informe?.definitely!Listen..the best stuff is always in front of you and  heard first inside somebody else's head-check this out and you won't be disappointed!

The Untruths

The next Eisenhowers CD is out soon available only on microdot and will be available only to well dressed females wearing short skirts and real freckles-get it!
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Almost Half-undressed goes way beyond the Costello and Squeeze-Mann comparisons and deserves more than a cursory first listening for a proper review of the heights it actually hits and 'hits' is the KEY ord here ,folks!'Novelty Act' is a tongue-in-someone-elses-cheek song with cracking lyrics and a hook you would die for while
Jigsaw fulfills the promises of the opening lines in a never-to-be-forgotten chorus that will have you singing in your sleep.The playing and the singing have a brilliant sympathy all through this recording and the cutting wit of 'Plastic Jesus'should empty most churches in double-quick time if played before the collection plate comes round-who needs 'religion' when true wsidom is conquered by true with and meaningful insight into the moral-free society.Bury your pets and relatives to these keenly-crafted tunes and then look forawrd to living happilly never after with a smile on your face.More of the same please with  plenty of vitamins on the lyrics.

Dare you to buy it!
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On the Eisenhowers site they mention that they are "a loose collection of people who sometimes make a noise with musical instruments." Well, if lots of neat harmonies and catchy guitar riffs are noise, then bring it on.  Raymond Weir, primary force for the band, does a great job here. ‘Useless Love’ is a low-key rocker that reminds me of a lost Dream Academy track, while ‘Novelty Act’ is a flat-out great song that evokes Crowded House; it has a great chorus, biting lyrics and some amazing guitar.  ‘Jigsaw’ is another song with some great hooks … it recalls the best singles of The Rembrandts.  ‘If Satellites Should Fall’ has a beautiful arrangement and flows along like a lazy river. Little influences of Squeeze, Elvis Costello and XTC appear in all sorts of places, so this will not disappoint most powerpop or AOR fans.  You should enjoy this one!
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Ornate power pop in the vein of The Tories, Jellyfish, and Doug Powell. The Tories is the best comparison, because this band makes glistening music, but doesn't pile on lots of production tricks.  This is a style that can grate when it becomes too pristine or precious.  Like the best music from The Tories, The Eisenhowers avoid this, due in part to sharp observational lyrics (meaning their music isn't just an exercise in sounding good) and having some muscle underneath the sheen. 

These qualities are displayed to good effect on ‘Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein’. The song works a sinister pop melody, with an ominous psych-pop vibe in the verses and an instantly memorable chorus. There are also some cutting lyrics, for example, "money talks and we understand it." 
One song (‘Jigsaw’) has a nice Beatles gloss on it, with some George Harrison-like slide guitar that augments the basic Eisenhowers approach.  That is, everything fits within the Jellyfish template, but other elements are added, like the underlying dance music rhythm (think Squeeze's ‘Cool For Cats’) in the inspired chorus.  Inspired is a good word to describe this disc as a whole, and the inspiration is backed up by strong committed performances.
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