Sirena [Audio CD] Cousteau - Very Good

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Amazon.ca Sirena, the second album from Davey Ray Moor, Liam McKahey, Craig Vear and Joe Peet further demonstrates Cousteau's debt to Scott Walker, the Tindersticks and, indeed, any young man or men who have ever put on a suit, turned the lights down low and crooned sadly and sonorously, but edgily. A bunch of itinerant thirtysomethings led by tattooed Irish former decorator--the big-voiced McKahey--and jobbing Aussie musician-turned-writer of sepia-toned torchsong Moor, Cousteau's self-titled debut sold 100,000 copies on the back of endless touring and word-of-mouth. Whether the even more soulful and gently persuasive Sirena will signal a major breakthrough for Cousteau depends on how many of us want to hear musicians play simple but majestic pop without studio trickery, and need a bit of heartbreak poetry in our lives. Buoyed by dramatic pianos, subtle strings and even the odd keening steel guitar, these anthems of bruised machismo frame Liam's rich and relaxed slides between warm baritone and caressing falsetto. If there's a drawback, it lies in the rhythmic and textural sameyness of much of the material. But, at its best--"Nothing So Bad", "Heavy Weather", single "Talking To Myself", the deliciously sensual "Salome"--Sirena is an album of bittersweet bliss and old-fashioned swoon-pop values. --Garry Mulholland

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