Product Description

'The Trick To Life' is the debut album from indie-pop trio The Hoosiers. A collection of indie belters that will pleasefans of Mika and ELO, this is a debut album that will definitely put a smile on your face. Includes the singles 'Worried About Ray' and 'Goodbye Mr. A'.

Track Listing

1. Worried About Ray
2. Worst Case Scenario
3. Run Rabbit Run
4. Goodbye Mr A
5. Sadness Runs Through Him
6. Clinging On For Life
7. Cops And Robbers
8. Everything Goes Dark
9. Killer
10. Trick To Life
11. Money To Be Made
12. Feeling You Get When

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-22
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
If The Feeling’s slick high-crime pilfering of 70’s AOR is missing anything in particular--and they do run a tight operation--then it’s a bit of throttle, a hint of recklessness, if that’s not too much of a contradiction in terms. Enter London-based trio The Hoosiers, who pogo like un-caged kids on Saturday morning TV hooked up to McFlurry drips, dancing to Twelve Stops and Home on fast-forward like everything’s quite normal. Or at least they do for much of the time–-"Clinging on for Life" for instance sidles off into an unusually mellow Nick Drake lay-by. But for the most part The Trick to Life is the work of Electric Light Orchestra and Supertramp half-inched, shaken up and handed to McFly to pop the cork. There is much that feels near-plagiarised. "Goodbye Mr A" has more than a little of ELO’s signature "Mr Blue Sky" to it, "Worried About Ray" recalls The Turtles’ "Happy Together" and "Cops and Robbers" isn’t even remotely coy about stealing wholesale from a tune as iconic as The Cure’s unmistakable "The Lovecats". And coming a little closer to home, "Run Rabbit Run" sees singer Irwin Sparkes unfurl a soprano tailor-made for a close impersonation of dreamy indie-poppers The Delays. But if none of that bothers you (or even if it does) The Hoosiers have a super-charged barrel of sugar rushes here that are dangerously immediate and difficult to ignore, sweet tooth or no sweet tooth. --James Berry

Customer Reviews

Awsome
this is a cd i believe everyone should have. the songs are consistently good throughtout the whole cd. from songs like 'goodbye mr A', 'cops and robbers' and 'worried about ray' to the less celibrated songs like 'the trick to life', the worst case senario' and 'every thing goes dark'. Plus for under £5 an absolute bargain.

More great tunes
All right, I am a bit late off the mark with this review and, I have to be honest I only got this coz Tesco were flogging it cheap but I am glad I did. I put this in the cd player, sat back, and then jumped up for joy at the sheer energy that came from the speakers from this album. I am not saying it is wall to wall sunshine, but, nearly all of the tracks were upbeat and uplifting. A Sadness Runs Through Him was for me the only track that I did not really like that much, but that may just be me. This is Brit guitar pop at its best. It is funny that I picked this up at the same time as picking up The Clash singles album which was also going cheap too. Does that say anything, maybe, but I would urge you to at least give this a good listen and judge for yourself. An all round fine album.

Terribly disappointing
After hearing "Worried About Ray" and "Goodbye Mr. A" I was quite excited about this album. I expected a bit of feel-good bouncy pop music, but those were easily the two best tracks. My high expectations probably contributed to my disappointment, but it wasn't a great album. Now I've listened to it a few times I'm not sure I'd even call it a good album. The singles have been overplayed, now when I hear those tracks I loved I have to change stations. It's an album I highly doubt I'll play for quite a long time.