CD of the week Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings by Counting Crows (From Swindon Advertiser)

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CD of the week Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings by Counting Crows

5:57pm Friday 9th May 2008

By Flicky Harrison »

Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings Counting Crows out now on Geffen Records Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is a game of two halves kicking off with 1942 a layered rock track moving from light into dark and back again.

The band open this cracking album with a full electric sound that promises excitement.

Next up is Hanging Tree that has a melodic opening ad sing-a-long chorus with an accomplished guitar solo.

Los Angeles is more of a blues number despite reflecting the glitzy madcap whirl of its title.

Sundays is sunny song, showcasing the powerful rock voice of Adam Duritz. It has a light, bright feel and the poppy tone of the modern rock outfits.

Insignificant is pure poetry including the cutting edge lines: ''Wash your face and hands in the stream of my anger.'' It is a magical rock anthem of epic magnitude.

Ending Saturday Nights is Cowboys, a track that again highlight the perfect diction of Adam's voice and shows the political cut and thrust so favoured by this band.

Washington Square shows the softer underbelly of Counting Crows as it opens Sunday Mornings. Some beautiful harmonica blues played out against a gutsy backbone of guitar spill into some trilling, pretty keyboards.

Another harp blues track follows called On Almost Any Sunday Morning. It has a Dylan-esque feel and again is pure poetry set to music.

When I Dream Of Michael Angelo has a celtic feel rather than Italian and some superb mandolin.

Anyone But You shows Adam's huge range of voice. I thought for a second it was another singer as Adam brought out that midnight blue velvet voice. The close harmonies in this track are simply gorgeous.

You Can Count On Me has some true grit wah wah guitar which blends into a soft keyboard solo.

Le Ballet D'Or is an atmospheric ballad with strong imagery and On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago does what it says on the can. We feel the full impact of nostalgia and longing for the past.

Rounding off this handsome double themed CD is Come Around which is back to the full band in rock mode, still poetic but played with gusto.

Lovely.

Flicky Harrison

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