Want some '60s and power pop mania? Writerscramp opens with the bridge chords and guitar lead from the Move's "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" (someone send this to Roy Wood). The second song name-checks Bob Dylan, Donovan, the Who, Brian Wilson, the Beatles, the Monkees, XTC, Johnny Thunders, and the Records while retracing the George Harrison guitar solo from "My Sweet Love." The third song rips off the Beatles' Let It Be track "I Dig a Pony." Head Breetle Chris Breetveld probably loves the Rutles, the Dukes of Stratosphear (and XTC's Skylarking), Martin Newell, Todd Rundgren (especially Utopia's Deface the Music), and other records whose sole purpose is to return to rock & roll pop's golden age: 1964-1974. Hey, he even gets R. Stevie Moore to sit in on these sessions (and his label did us the favor of reissuing the obscure seventh Badfinger LP). Tell you what, like the above named, the Breetles are a lot of fun. Because Breetveld -- who comes across as an American, more power pop Newell -- has such a thorough knowledge of what he's re-creating. "Same as Me" is one of those songs that's as immediately drop-dead catchy as all his heroes, and there are others here like the XTC-ish "Please Send Boat" that brighten up a rainy afternoon. Sometimes nostalgia just isn't a bad thing. (14431 Ventura Blvd., PMB #311, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423;
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