Costello Music

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Witty and imaginative.

The Fratellis are Barry, Mince and Jon Fratelli.

A Glasgow three-piece assembled through a mixture of luck and lazing around drinking a pint.

They are just about to get huge, so limber up and prepare to dance.

"Costello Music" is an uplifting and joyous set of well put together songs, blending Jon's complex tales with some simple, but effective melodies. It makes a nice change, like The Kooks and the Monkeys before them, for a band to produce a record that's all about the melody. Alongside th…

The Fratellis are Barry, Mince and Jon Fratelli.

A Glasgow three-piece assembled through a mixture of luck and lazing around drinking a pint.

They are just about to get huge, so limber up and prepare to dance.

"Costello Music" is an uplifting and joyous set of well put together songs, blending Jon's complex tales with some simple, but effective melodies. It makes a nice change, like The Kooks and the Monkeys before them, for a band to produce a record that's all about the melody. Alongside the tunes come interesting and profound lyrics that stick in your head and Jon Fratelli can certainly put a good line together.

"And though I may be a beggar/And you may be the queen/ though I may be on downer I'm still ready to dream," comes from "Whistle For The Choir", a slow whimsical acoustic driven ballad.

However what follows next is "Chelsea Dagger", uncompromising, dirty and raucous backed with a crowd leaping riff. "For The Girl" seems to be born into disco bliss before breaking its way out into a snarling scream that typifies the surprises in store on this record.

"Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night" is another intriguing addition. Stand out tracks have to be "Henrietta", "Flathead", "Whistle For the Choir" and "Doginabag". The nearest the band comes to feeling tired is on "Baby Fratellis", but you can forgive them when you're still whistling from the previous track.

Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Tony Hoffer who produced Beck and Supergrass, "Costello Music" is amongst the most talked about indie albums of 2006.

The album contains a brilliant mix of the 1970's and 60's rock'n'roll, with addition of punk and catchy melodies.

The new album has everything that the audience likes in good rock music: well-coordinated musicians' playing, sing-along choruses and witty rhymes, it's got the style and the punch backed up by Jon's killer voice. Rock n' roll is alive and well in "Costello Music" and yet again a band has emerged to blow the socks of the last.

Fratellis take a melody, throw it around and then bounce it in your face. You'll love it.

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Written by G.Villan

Costello Music

Costello Music is a great example of catchy, get up and sing guitar music. Choruses are meant to be sung en mass; verses are brief and don't get in the way of the choruses. It's fast, it's effective, it gets the job done. Think of it as a musical pick-me-up. It fades as it goes, and I think the later songs could have done with turning down the guitar a few notches, but it's a good album. Not great, but good. The best moment, it should be noted, is "Whistle for the Choir," the album's one moment of rest.

Written by A. Lynch "The Magic Dragon"

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Henrietta