I Am Bones
Wrong numbers are never busy
Morningside Records
"Vitamin D", which is the sixth track on "Wrong numbers..." sounds like it could have featured on Magic Numbers' album from last year. It's an exquisite pop song that makes me wonder how the same person who wrote that could possibly write such an utterly horrendous song such as "The beat is Satan". This whole album is very schizophrenic, sometimes it sounds like a Smashing Pumpkins song ("Get with the program"), a Weezer pastiche ("Replica"), like Beck ("Cut Elly") or some other popular American "indie" artist. I bet Johannes Gammelby, who is the (disputable) "genius" behind I Am Bones, is really proud with the album and how he's managed to cram so many different musical ideas and inspirations into 12 songs. On their website you can read that 100 hours alone were spent on recording the last track "Honeytrap". The song is pretty good, so next time he might need to spend 100 hours on every track. That's 1,200 hours for a 12 track album. If he worked 9-5 Monday-Friday (taking an hour's lunch break) it would only take him about 6 months. Perhaps then he would have time to decide upon a singular musical direction.
- Simon Tagestam