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Swallowed Bombs

by Sugar High

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"Power pop has always been about the comfort factor, the idea that no matter how dicey a boy-girl song situation is, the love emanating from a stack of carefully chosen records is somehow going to make everything all right. Tempe's Sugar High has not been immune to this sort of hero worship — "My Star," the most romantic song here, lauds a girl to immortal beloved status for deciphering Ramones lyrics. But that's also a song from the band's earliest days, and six years after their first full-length, Let the Sunshine Out raises the stakes and pushes Sugar High well beyond its comfort zone, to a place where bad things happen to good people who own Matthew Sweet records."

That's how I opened my 2008 review of their final album, Let the Sunshine Out but Sugar High's sweet trajectory goes back to 1995 when Adrian Evans, Sean Gens, Pat Singleton and Pat's nephew Rusty Marlboro formed Autumn Teen Sound in in 1995. Their image was so ultra power poppish, they could be seen blowing bubbles in one one of their earliest publicity still.

This track found them at their later tougher sounding stance, breaking the four-minute song length barrier yet still retaining their addiction to melody and song structure.

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released February 10, 2015
Album: Let the Sunshine Out (2008)

Lineup: Mick Williams (guitar), Sean Gens (drums), Patrick Singleton (bass, background vocals), Adrian Evans (vocals, acoustic guitar)

Guest musicians: Bob Hoag (drums and Hammond organ on bridge), Kevin Scanlon (guitar solo)

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