Easy Wonderful is a Alt/Indie album by Guster, originally released in 2010. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- shimmering
- uplifting
- summer
About
Guster have yet to release a boring tune. Every single song on 2010’s <i>Easy Wonderful</i> is catchy. The opening “Architects & Engineers” is loaded with Beatlesque barbs and Beach Boys-inspired "oohs" that grapple the listener as the indie-boy charm of singers Adam Gardner and Ryan Miller work an earnest kind of magic. “Do You Love Me” is perfect guitar pop — it’s got a nostalgic narrative, church bells and an uplifting bridge that would have had <i>Sassy</i> magazine issuing out a “Cute Band Alert” had it not folded in 1996. The buoyant “This Could All Be Yours” is another obvious standout with its soaring refrain while the mellower “Stay With Me Jesus” plays like a spiritual Kinks ditty. Continuing on a quasi-theme, the acoustic based “That’s No Way To Get To Heaven” and the danceable “Jesus & Mary” flirt with religious imagery while casting more hooks than a fishing net. Of the four bonus tracks “Well” gets the hushed folkie treatment, “Jonah” rocks with reverb, “Lost At Sea” bounces on piano-rock and “OK Alright” gets a bit roots-y.
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Tracklist
- 1Architects & Engineers2:55
- 2Do You Love Me3:40
- 3On the Ocean4:23
- 4This Could All Be Yours3:32
- 5Stay With Me Jesus3:02
- 6Bad Bad World4:30
- 7This Is How It Feels to Have a Broken Heart3:23
- 8What You Call Love3:37
- 9That's No Way to Get to Heaven2:16
- 10Jesus & Mary3:30
- 11Hercules2:52
- 12Do What You Want3:55
- 13Well (Bonus Track)2:38
- 14Jonah (Bonus Track)3:22
- 15Lost At Sea (Bonus Track)3:12
- 16OK Alright2:48
Credits
Production & Engineering
- Peter KatisMIXED BY
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold