CD Review: Pillow Talk – “What We Should Have Said” (Animal Style)
It’s clear that Pillow Talk are fans of The Cure. Look no
further than “Bend,” the instrumental opening tryst of the Nashville quintets’ What We Should Have Said EP, an
endearing initial salvo that sounds plucked from the cutting room floor of The
Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me or Disintegration recording sessions. At a
terse five songs, What We Should Have
Said plays like a short highlight reel (“Make You Real” is a
Cure-meets-Brand New lullaby of jangly guitars and jilted melodies, an ardent
low end permeates the dense fog of “Heaven Sent,” “Room” is beautiful
melancholia, “Escape Me” is a hazy journey that ebbs and flows amid discordant
atmospheres and nuanced strains); an EP whose only pitfall is it’s length. Always
leave them wanting more as they say, something Pillow Talk has done, and then
some, because What We Should Have Said is
a delicious appetizer of an album.
Grade: B+
Go Download: “Room”
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