PV - Create Your Lover

1. Summer Days
2. Create Your Lover #2
3. The Things You Do
4. While You Sleep
5. Create Your Lover #1
    

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Total Playing Time: 19:40 m:s

Review date: 03/02/2000

Email: bigwavebuz@aol.com 

 Last month I was struggling to come to terms with Harem Scarem's increasingly more modern tact and their adoption of a power pop style. It is strange that when this slice of modern rock-pop made it into my CD player that I had no problems embracing it.

It is hard to describe just what is at the centre of PV's sound as it changes across the songs on here. The first track, "Summer Days", lilts in on some female vocals and then some acoustic guitar before it ends up as a vaguely jazzy Westcoast-AOR, but mainly pop tune. On "Create Your Lover #1", which strangely comes before #1, PV's voice takes on a Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave quality as it sits upon some sparse acoustic guitar. After this, the bright infectious uptempo "The Things You Do" comes as a bit of a surprise. PV shares the vocals with Jannicke Larsens for this jangle-ly  guitar driven pop which call to mind The Bangles. "While You Sleep" has another moody start before becoming a slow atmospheric tune. "Create You Lover #2" at first replaces the acoustic guitar of #1 with a piano, but gradually picks up more instruments and tempo as it progresses, before fading out in a very Jean Michel Jarre fashion.

As you can see PV crams quite a bit into just 5 songs, but somehow there is a continuity to it all. I find listening to this refreshing. It is good to know that it is possible to create a record with a sound for Y2K that isn't simply a clone of the Foo Fighters etc.