Primo de la Rocket Suit

• Artist: Had
• Rating:
• Release Date: March 26, 2002
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

This greater Seattle (Mukilteo) foursome is kind of like a Northwest Teenage Fanclub (late '90s, early 2000s), as the talented members all take turn singing lead (and, incredibly, all four play various keyboards and stringed instruments, even the drummer, and in one case, a trombone -- talk about creative chaps!) on a stack of lulling pop songs with just-add-milk melodies you go for immediately. They often sneak up on you with a little acoustic-folk opening, then the band will come like a gathering rain you can feel advancing from Vancouver or Yakima. Such a sense of unpredictable backing continues throughout, on a melange of power-pop (the best cut, "Policeman and Planes"), psych-pop (like "Carpool") and indie-pop winners, as the quality of writing, singing, and developed arrangements never wavers. Extremely well produced by Nathan Shuster with the band, Primo is a grabber, with bold drums, thick guitars, rumbling bass, and sweet vocals, whether main singer, Matt Kristiansen, or his talented mates, Matt Cory, Marty Bellew, and Aaron McMullen. Out of a stack of typically mediocre releases, this is like food to a starving pop Shackleton stuck in the Antarctic ice. ~ Jack Rabid, Rovi

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