Product Description

Known for slow and chimerical haze-pop since their days in Luna, Dean & Britta continue the tradition on their second album, with sleepy covers of Lee Hazelwood and the Troggs, aswell as lovely, bass-heavy originals that make the most of the sweet interplay of their voices.

Track Listing

1. Singer Sing
2. Words You Used To Say
3. Wait For Me
4. You Turned My Head Around
5. Teen Angel
6. White Horses
7. Me And My Babies
8. Say Goodnight
9. Crystal Blue
10. Sun Is Still Sunny
11. Our Love Will Still Be There

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61236 in Music
• Released on: 2008-08-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The thoroughly excellent sophomore release by the two best-looking members of Luna should make any fans who bemoaned that group's demise happy as hell with its lovingly crafted cocktail hour visions. Back Numbers offers up perfect rainy day music on every graceful, laconic song. The album recalls the sophisticated, decadent sounds of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra throughout. Unsurprisingly, Hazlewood is covered on one song here but this is no cheesy retro exercise; in fact, no one has mined this type of material with such originality since Nick Cave approached it in the 1980s. Each song is imbued with a subtly different style, with nods to the hazy psychedelic folk-rock of Opal and Clay Allison on numbers like "Say Goodnight" and the steampunk synth washes of Sonic Boom (who performs on the album) and Suicide on "Singer Sing." Other numbers like "The Sun Is Still Sunny"--awash in sophisticated strings, hushed dual harmonies, a dash of piano and Mr. Wareham's warm and melodic guitar lines--don't sound like anyone else, at all. Huzzah! --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

The best of the year so far?
The first starting point that EVERYONE will lead you to is Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra. And lets be fair about it folks, that's a decent place to come from, with indeed the feeling throughout the album that if Lee and Nancy time-travelled to 2007 to make a record they'd probably come up with something not a million miles away from Back Numbers. As if to reference the point, one of the standout tracks on the album is a cover of the old Lee Hazlewood tune You Turned My Head Around, which ok wasn't a duet with Nancy Sinatra but you get the idea.

The song highlights just how good a singer Britta can be, and its her dreamy vocals that most seduce you on the album and combined with the 60's tinged pop sound the end result is something quite special indeed.

There's other covers on there as well with a take on Donovan's Teen Angel also being particularly good. These sit nicely in with the originals, with The Sun Is Still Sunny and Words You Used To Say being highlights.

In the final analysis pretty much everything is a highlight. It won't be to everyone's taste, but that's only to be expected from a record that is as fantastic as this one without being tailored to the lowest common denominator marketing wise.

If you fancy something packed with acoustic guitars, orchestration, and bubbling synths with a tinge of 60's Phil Spector style pop thrown in for good measure then you have to go out and buy this record. It's quite unlike anything else you are likely to hear this year and so far has to be right up there as one of the best albums of the year.