Confessional Family Vacation Slide Show Music:Throw Me the Statue's Moonbeams

This album hits a high early on the first two tracks with the hook break section of “Lolita” being so overwhelmingly evocative that the rest has trouble returning to the same exquisite mesh.

Yet, Throw Me the Statue’s Moonbeams truly brings a homegrown kind of joy. Aside from the topless swimmers cover picture, the album artwork pictures recall summer family vacations—boaters and a mountain lake overlook. That family slide show matches both the taboo subject matters and the music itself.

“Young Sensualists” and “Lolita” are confessional, sexual, adolescent tales which are a very real undercurrent to family trips with teenagers. It’s what their bodies and minds are going through; it’s what their souls are struggling against as Scott Reitherman sings, “You were an honest pal and I wasn't always right somehow.”

Coupled with the temptation undercurrent, TMTS create music from tinny, playful, toy-instrument-like, home recording-type sounds that employ “overly Casio” synth effects like the Cars of the early 80’s. It’s Half-handed Cloud meets Simon Garfunkel; it’s the horns of Sufjan Stevens with acoustic indie rockfolk. “Your Girlfriend’s Car” is buld on a pianoforte, California bounce. “Yucatan Gold” is like the Stone Roses’ “Fool’s Gold” stripped back to an indie basement bedroom tape.

Throw Me the Statue
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