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: #37 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

Pretty good but a little too mainstream
When The Feeling came out they were just different enough from the current mainstream to make an impact; it's almost a shame The Hoosiers weren't signed first. To say the two are similar would be an understatement though it's something neither band is ashamed of. They both state similar artists as influences and both have a more than accidental tang of ELO about them, particularly here with Mr.A
So basically the albums enjoyable to listen to, pretty much all the songs are a good standard and extremely catchy and as a band Hoosiers may be slightly better than the Feeling with one or two songs. Definitely worth a listen.

I assume Mr Lynne has spoken to his lawyers...
...As a whole album of uncredited Mr Blue Sky covers must irritate him a bit.

Catchy.
This is an instantly memorable album, with catchy tunes and that brilliant falsetto by the lead singer means they stand out from the crowd, i'm not being drawn on the originality that does not concern me only the music.