Mint Records
2008
The Arc
About This Album
Young and Sexy have built a uniformly excellent catalog of brilliantly conceived and executed pop music for adults. Full of sophisticated arrangements, heartbreakingly felt and delivered vocals, and tricky, memorable melodies, their albums have been like a dream come true to fans of '80s pop groups like the Go-Betweens and Prefab Sprout. Like those bands, Young and Sexy have kept things interesting by making changes from album to album both in sound and in lyrical outlook. On their previous effort, Panic When You Find It, the band scaled back a touch on the arrangements and went straight to the bleak heart of things musically while lyrically touching on matters both personal and political with real insight and feeling. On The Arc the group revisits the lush and full sound of earlier album Life Through One Speaker using loads of reverb in the mix and plenty of atmosphere throughout, providing a dramatic background for their new lyrical approach. Forsaking the intimate and emotionally naked feel of past records, Paul Hixon Pittman's words are a knotty tangle of imagery it might take an advanced degree in medieval history to decipher. There's talk of brimstone, bison, fires, floods and war as well an underlying current of struggle with religion.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5,7,8 and 9)

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