Apart From the Crowd, Great Buildings, 1981, :40
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Solid jangle-pop from a now largely-forgotten group featuring two guys who went on to being very much there for us, forming the Rembrants. But before those two friends got all that sweet sweet TV money, there was this early 1980s slab o'power pop. Nothing too earth-shaking here, just serious songwriting chops from guys with an ear for a hook. Sometimes it gets a little corny, like on the five-minute title track that might take itself a little too seriously, but mostly it's smooth listening. Favorite tracks: "Dream That Never Dies" (foreshadowing that Rembrandts sound), "Hold On to Something," the Squeeze-like "And the Light Goes On."
