CORPORATE LINE: Features the “Jerk It Out” as heard in the iPod Shuffle commercial. Hailed by Blender magazine for making music “as hot as a kiln,” the Caesars new album is richly layered power pop with a sound that melds the summer of ‘65 electric beat instrumentation with a 2005 wide-eyed urgency.
Sweden’s Caesars take a confident step out of the garage on their new album, Paper Tigers a lively, layered rock album informed as much by Lennon/McCartney as the 13th Floor Elevators and Stooges.
THE GREAT:
“Jerk It Out” – You’ll recognize the song from the iPod commercial as it blasts off. Having heard the Doors’ style organ you’d swear it came straight from the ‘60s.
“Spirit” – Starts slowly and builds into a song that never sounds as if it was going to amount to little more than filler—wrong, it’s great.
“It’s Not the Fall That Hurts” and “We Got To Leave” – Nonsensical songs that wrap you up in hooky melodies.
“Winter Song” – An incredibly simple song that hits in all the right places.
“Paper Tigers” – Inspired and joyous—it doesn’t hurt that the chorus sticks with you.
THE AVERAGE:
“May the Rain” – Certainly not bad and not entirely average—just not great. This would be a great song for a lot of bands but behind so many good tracks it gets lost.
“My Heart Is Breaking Down” – A silly love song.
THE BAD:
Nothing.
FRANKLY: Caesars sound more like the ‘60s than Swedes. In fact you’d swear they were something that America produced—yet you’d be wrong. “Jerk It Out” isn’t one track and the rest is filler—Paper Tigers proves these boys are going to be around for a while.
+ Rae Gun
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