ARTIST: The Lashes TITLE: Get It LABEL: Columbia GENRE: Rock BITRATE: 236kbps avg PLAYTIME: 0h 34min total RELEASE DATE: 2006-02-21 RIP DATE: 2006-01-14 Track List ---------- 01. New Best Friend 3:30 02. Daddy's Little Girl 2:56 03. Sometimes The Sun 3:17 04. Safe To Say 3:00 05. Please, Please, Please 3:12 06. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody 3:11 07. Dear Hollywood 4:06 08. Yesterday Feels Like A Year 3:16 09. Nate's Song 2:24 10. The World Needs More Love 2:59 Letters 11. Wanna Girl 3:03 Release Notes: Today’s music reverberates the world’s music from the past to varying degrees of success. Whether deliberate or not, (not all music from today, although blindly influenced, is pointed to a specific period), it attempts to latch onto the taste buds of our preferences in the hopes that we will buy into the ‘in’ sound. It’s even better if they can set the standard for that new ‘in’ sound, not a difficult thing to do given our unending quest for the next great style. The Lashes is a melodic, post-punk, alternative style that hint of late ‘70s new wave. The opening track, "New Best Friend," an immediate single choice, revs wave the engine of The Lashes with an energetic song that will have you interested right out of the gate without a need to let the album run though before decision. The good stuff continues with "Daddy’s Little Girl," which, interestingly will bring to mind a bit of Elvis Costello in a very strange way (also check out "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" for the same deja vu). Perhaps it’s the similar style employed by the bands in the ‘70s new wave period, however, suffice it to say that if The Lashes were to have emerged in that period, they would have been one of those classic radio bands that we all remember over the years. The Lashes are here and now and have validity in this era of new "new wave" music. With the enjoyable work of Interpol, Bloc Party, and others that artistically plunder the gold mine of past sounds, The Lashes are as legitimate as those previously mentioned and can grasp the potential love of a much wider audience that include those that miss the old days and that younger audience that embraces the new mix of old culture in an updated styling.