- Label: 'Think Like A Key Music'
- Genre: 'Seventies'
- Release Date: '13.9.23.'- Catalogue No: 'TLAK1176'
Our Rating:
Home is Where Your Dog Is has sat on a shelf for over 50 years! This is Brevity's unreleased album from 1970/1 when it was recorded by this Chicago band, who almost signed for Frank Zappas Straight/Bizarre label. Not sure how well it would have fit on that label, this doesn't sound at all Zappa like. Brevity were Rick Vittenson, Mark Breyer and David Winogrond. Who also watched the roller derby with Jimi Hendrix and interviewed Marc Bolan.
The album opens with Oleoleo that isn't the football chant, but a rather charming folky pop song with mandolins to help you play hide and seek.
Aslan And You has the sort of fairy tale feel you might expect, they look for the blue skies hoping for a bright day. Very Truly Yours is gentle explanations of how they want to play with their dog, the piano accompanies them picking it up by the scruff of its neck, so it can go running in the fields.
Snow Joke it's the middle of another Chicago winter and you're trying to clear the snow from the yard once more, this is sweet faux naive easy listening folk pop.
Better Dead Than In The Red has a subtle psychedelic influence, they moan about all the people they owe money too. For Lack Of A Smile is gentle in a Leo Sayer meets Donovan neo psychedelic pop with nice harmonies and piano lines.
Come See Paris (In The Fall) is someone's dream of being able to travel the world, dreaming of the wonders of autumnal Paris as seen her mum's old photo albums.
Lullaby (On Vacant Eve) may well lull you to sleep with gentle tones this slowly helps close the day yawn...ZZZ..
Cakewalk has a more frazzled feel, for this song about I guess an American Football game, the Cubs are gonna romp home, this is the heaviest tune on the album.
The album would have closed with A Niche In Time had it been released, this sees them time travelling back to the 1870's when they really wanted to live, chamber Pop for days gone by.
The bonus demos start with Home Alone a wistful piano led tale of spending the night Home Alone in different ways to the later film.
Everybody's Nice is of course ironic, they take aim at the politicians making life less than peachy, without mentioning the traumas of the time, they munch apricots and strum away on an acoustic guitar.
Friends of Mine warned me of trio's bearing gifts, like this song obsessed by a childhood trike and its gun toting rider, the sparse piano and acoustic backing add a little colour to the tale.
Little Fawn is barely there as they dream of Bambi and her clan. So And So Equals Zero certainly didn't hear the Radio show this morning discussing zero, but this is more about loves betrayals, husbands up to no good, set against gentle piano, a song for rotters everywhere.
Soaring So High what have they imbibed to float away with. Pets is a sad remembrance for all the pets who've died, that is almost a blueprint for Jim Carroll's Friends Who Died, only not as catchy.
Pussycat Pussycat doesn't have a pea green boat sadly but is rather gentle and floaty love letter to a Pussycat. The album closes with Try To Forget a remembered dream about events best not spoken about, like how no band from the early 70's is now too obscure to have a full re-issue or first release.
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