Nice and Nicely Done, yes, yes, that title says it all... Ooh, that was easy.
This is a great record. From 'Did I Tell You' to 'Mountains' this is wonderful stuff. Bright, colourful music that gets you up, gets you dancing, gets you wishing that you'll live forever and have an eternal good time partying with girls and friends and gin and tonics, gets you happy and leaves you happy after listening.
First track and new single 'Did I Tell You' has a melody to die for, you'll be singing it in your sleep and air-drumming yourself into waking up, you'll be dreaming in kaleidoscopic visions and having a brilliant time. You'll wake up to the kazoos of 'Brown Boxes' and you'll hop straight into a mood of exuberance and readiness for the day, Nick Krill's glorious voice inspiring the living daylights into you.
Then it's time for the real classic on this record. If this song is not being played on daytime radio on the beaches and boats in the bays of the Caribbean islands in fifty years time, then there's no point living the next fifty years. 'Oh Mandy' is that song, it's sumptuous and full of sunshine, it's been one of the greatest musical moments of the past year, alongside a few other life-affirming musical memories, and it's a must for any record collection.
Every song on the album has an unmistakable uniqueness, each one is memorable in its very own way and yet they all flow together like God wrote the running order. The band sound like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's charming little brother, full to the brim with that melodic magic that creates the prominent colours of the aforementioned band's debut record. Oh, it's grand stuff it is...
The bass bumps on 'Crack the Whip', the ooh's and ah's enchant on 'Spy vs. Spy', the guitars and vocals haunt on 'Direct To Helmet'. Everything on the album hits some part of you, tickles another, caresses something, seeps in beneath your skin, crawls into your heart and pollutes your mind for days to come.
Say yes to The Spinto Band. From their particularly interesting story of forming ("Nick Krill was rummaging through the personal effects of his late grandfather, the guitar player Roy Spinto. For years, Roy had penned lyrics on the inside of Cracker Jack boxes, and in one simple juxtaposition of time and fate, Nick found the lyrics that would inspire the creation of the Spinto Band"), to their years of touring and wowing audiences, to this their official debut which is blowing everyone away, The Spinto Band have proven themselves as something very special indeed...