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Brent Cash has swooped right up to the head of the Sunshine Pop class, pushing aside all those who have been keeping the flame alive (just) for the last decade. And most of those keepers are not really sunshiny at all, they tend toward the cloudy and morose but occasionally let some crepuscular rays of sunlight filter through. Their songcraft is rooted in Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb, with unexpected chord and meter changes around every corner, and arrangements that could stand on their own as instrumental lounge music. Matt Hales, a.k.a. Aqualung, is such a one, though his chord progressions reveal more of McCartney's influence than anyone else, as on the exquisite "Brighter Than Sunshine" which is the first song in his MySpace player at posting time: Argh, I can't turn off the autoplay, so here's a Seeqpod player instead:
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