Album Notes

Safe Home is: "...a quiet little melancholia for electro-burble, cyclical guitars, harmonium and the distant intimacy of a faraway-so-close voice" "..a holiday break from the Places No-One's Ever Thought About Visiting brochure. You simply can't get insurance cover for a resort like this. It's not even on the map" "Wispy Dutch post-rockers in no-go babysitting zone. Frankly, it's all a bit discomforting, though none the less intriguing because of it." In which old friends the Nightblooms make their return in scaled down style. During the '90s, Holland's Nightblooms mutated from a My Bloody Valentine influenced noisefest to a Pooh Sticks influenced indie-arena band, with only the breathy, lispy vocals of Esther Sprikkelman remaining a constant. Both Nightblooms albums ended with a brief, subdued, folk-rock song, and it's a safe guess that those were a sop to Esther's true musical leanings. Safe Home picks up where those album-closers left off, in Blue Eyes (Pale and Judy) territory. Some very subtle analog synth fizzes fill out the minimal guitar/harmonium/drum-taps backing, and the overall effect isn't unlike the fading autumn wistfulness of The Clientele. Visit Sunday Records @ www.sundayrecords.com