This Better Be Good
Fountains of Wayne are back with another album that sounds exactly like their last four… and I wouldn’t want it any other way. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I Know You Well
Like Raymond Carver fronting The Cars, lead Fountains Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger combine short fiction with power pop to heartwarming and heartwrenching effect. If you’re looking for a band whose lyrics demand reading as much as singing along to, Fountains of Wayne are here to make you happy.
It Must Be Summer
Like all great short story writers, FoW know its best to grab your readers/listeners with an arresting opening line. ‘The Summer Place’ opens…
She’s been afraid of the Cuisinart
Since 1977
…although why we never discover. Always leave some things to the reader’s imagination.
‘The Summer Place’ is a story about growing old, remembering our youth through rose-tinted glasses and trying to recapture happiness or contentment we may never have had in the first place. It’s made up of wonderfully observed detail and heartfelt character work. The Fountains paint pictures with lyrics, they show (don’t tell) and they know how to turn a memorable phrase. They’re great writers… and the music’s pretty cool too.
Can’t Get It Out Of My Head
Her mom would sit on the patio
She said she needed the sea air
She’d drink a fifth of Seagrams
And then she’d sink down into her deck chair
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