My first new music review of 2006 - and its an absolute corker, The Tonights self titled album is a killer CD - kicking off with perfect power-pop in the shape of ‘Tiptoes’ it wanders through a selection of great tracks, some piano ballads like ‘By Myself; with its added horn section and some downtempo, intense brooding tracks like ‘Homunculous’ and the closer ‘Red Velvet Goat’. The female vocals, are mixed well - pure and honest sounding, coupled with cool guitars and excellent drumming - and scatterings of horns and pianos to enrich the sound. Its an album that could be filed alongside many of the 90’s female influenced bands (Elastica maybe?) - but its sound and production is clean and current - and sat well on a couple of long drives in the car over Christmas. A friend gave me a copy of this CD - which is from Australia (I can’t find it for sale in the UK right now), but I fully expect to see this in the UK press very soon. Excellent album - hunt this down and make it your first great album of 2006.

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