Mother & The Addicts Discography of CDs

Mother & The Addicts music CDs Take the Lovers Home Tonight is unselfconscious, senseless, silly, messy, stains-and-all indie party music. Each one of Mother & the Addicts' members must play with his or her eyes bugged out, and if any one of them ever drops out during a song, it's only long enough to wipe off some sweat. On the Glasgow band's first album, following a late-2004 single (included here), the band lets rip like a neo-post-punk/new wave Mudhoney, slashing and careening away, with the odd hummable melody occasionally laid on top of all the noise. There will always be a need for this kind of thing (i.e., dumb music made by smart people), at least when it's done well, as heard here. (Note: the female member in this band isn't Mother. Mother is a fellow named Sam.) ~ Andy Kellman Mother & the Addicts: Douglass Morland (guitar); Peter Valley (bass guitar); Ian Cronan (drums).

Mother & The Addicts discography Despite its glammed-up name and by-default futuristic title, the thing about Mother & the Addicts' second album is how comfortable it is with its style -- rough, slightly lo-fi indie rock with dance tendencies that could have been recorded just as easily in 1990 as 2007. In a world of Hot Chip and the Klaxons trying to weld shamble with preset grooves that just seem to call to mind Jesus Jones wondering what exactly rave was, Mother & the Addicts don't break the mold by much. The best song on the album, "So Tough," is an obvious fusion of Pulp and Saint Etienne circa 1993 (the song title, also the name of the latter band's second album, surely wasn't chosen due to coincidence). Plenty of other musical comfort food moves like that crop up throughout, and in their own context -- a mostly horrifying U.K. rock scene for the first decade of this century -- Mother & the Addicts show a slight ambition. ~ Ned Raggett Recording information: Chem 19 Studios (2006). Personnel: Sam Smith (vocals, guitar, saxophone, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Douglas Morland (guitar, background vocals); Jamie Savage (piano); Ian Cronan (drums); Peter Vallely (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Paul Savage.

Mother & The Addicts songs Track Listing of songs: Oh Yeah/you Look Quite Nice; Oh God Stop Hurting Me; They Won't Hold Me;

Mother & The Addicts CD discography Track Listing of songs: Watch The Lines; Are Others;