Justamustache by Thunderbirds Are Now! (CD, Mar-2005, Frenchkiss Records)

Album Features
UPC:	675640910622
Artist:	Thunderbirds Are Now!
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2005
Record Label:	Frenchkiss Records
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Better Safe Than Safari
2. Eat This City
3. 198090
4. (Aquatic Cupid's) Harpoons of Love
5. Enough About Me, Let's Talk About Me
6. To: Skulls
7. From: Skulls
8. Bodies Adjust
9. This World Is Made of Paper...Held Together by a Stapler
10. Cobra Feet

Details
Producer:	Dave Feeny
Distributor:	Caroline Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Ryan Allen (vocals, guitar, piano, drums); Scott Allen (vocals, keyboards, percussion, sampler, sequencer); Mike Durgan (bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, tom tom); Martin Smith (cowbells).Audio Mixer: Dave Feeny.Recording information: Tempermill Studios, Ferndale, MI.If you're longing for the new wave/pre-MTV days when bands such as Blondie and the Tom Tom Club ruled, Detroit's Thunderbirds Are Now may very well rekindle Reagan-era déjà vu. Specializing in the same guitar-meets-synth sound as the aforementioned bands, Thunderbirds are obviously admirers of snappy little pop tunes, as evidenced throughout their second full-length offering (and first for the Frenchkiss label), 2005's Justamustache. It's hard not to listen to a tune like "Enough About Me, Let's Talk About Me" and not automatically picture a hopping dancefloor circa 1982, littered with dancers wearing headbands and/or legwarmers, while a tune like "From: Skulls" would have undoubtedly fit perfectly on the soundtrack to either Valley Girl or The Last American Virgin. With a sound comparable to both new wave originators and modern day revivalists, Justamustache seems tailor-made for both fans of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gwen Stefani. ~ Greg Prato