Doghouse
2005
Let Me Come Home
About This Album
Limbeck offer up a breezy, rambunctious dose of alt country pop music with Let Me Come Home. Clearly inspired by the likes of Wilco, Big Star, and Tom Petty, just about any of these 13 songs would put a smile on the faces of their jangle pop idols. Frontman Robb MacLean's nasal singing style might not lend itself that favorably to the album's few ballads, but thankfully sun-drenched California country-rock tunes outnumber the slower tracks. MacLean's and Patrick Carrie's harmonies are a fine fit for the upbeat guitars, melodic harmonicas, and punchy drums that paint countless images of happy road trips through the desert. Thematically things are kept pretty basic, with MacLean's occasional drawl illuminating universal tales of young love, life on the road, and catching a favorite band at the local bar. "Sin City" is particularly catchy, with MacLean relating how he used to hate the city, but now he likes it "because it's got you." Only "Television" feels like a stretch, with some awkward lyrics that attempt social commentary about war and societal ignorance in a song that proclaims that TV is bad for one's mind that "the people are idiots.
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