Let's Agree to Deceive Our Best Friends

• Artist: Auto Interiors
• Rating:
• Release Date: 2007
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Taking a step forward in the production department, Boston's Auto Interiors return to the scene (several years after their 2001, .D.I.Y fun-fest No Frill Halo Flight) with 2007's Let's Agree to Deceive Our Best Friends. Where No Frill certainly brought out the fun, spontaneity and exuberant creativity, but sometimes at the expense of high fidelity, Let's Agree offers up the same freewheeling spirit but with a little more attention paid to the engineering side of things. Not a slick album, by any means, but a good hundred paces ahead of the four-track quality of their debut. The guitars still sizzle and the drums still threaten to send needles careening off of platters but the little details that got lost in the fuzz the first time out (like the sweetly sung backing vox) really come forward and help to enlighten those who may not have noticed that Brian Wilson influence under all those My Bloody Valentine guitar blankets. Another influence nobody seemed to notice until now is lead singer Eric Waxwood's sometimes uncanny resemblance to Elvis Costello, which really pops out on the bouncier tracks like "I Suppose" and "Land Mines" -- maybe not in a lyrical sense, but definitely in the delivery. ~ J. Scott McClintock, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Window Shopping	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(2:59)
I Suppose	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(3:23)
True Life in Cinema	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(2:27)
Land Mines	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(3:08)
Science Failed Me	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(2:58)
Clear Adhesive	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(3:39)
Radar On	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(4:21)
Small Death	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(2:50)
Envy	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(3:30)
Another Way to Say "I'm Not Sorry"	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(1:22)
Green Arrow	Auto Interiors	Auto Interiors	(3:55)

Credits

Larry Mansdorf (Guitar), Michelle Paulhaus (Vocals (Background)), Tom Girard (Bass), Tom Girard (Group Member), Eric Waxwood (Guitar), Bruce Caporal (Drums), Larry Mansdorf (Group Member), Nicholas Zampiello (Mastering), Bruce Caporal (Group Member), Marc Upton Schleicher (Engineer), Spike Nagel (Vocals (Background)), Tom Girard (Vocals (Background)), Coke Dealer (Producer), Eric Waxwood (Vocals), Eric Waxwood (Group Member), Nicholas Zampiello (Engineer)