All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed

tart with the songs you've made up in the shower all your life. Dress them in arrangements that knowingly cross-reference Merseybeat, British Invasion, garage rock, raga, progressive pop, psychedelia, and folksong in bold, brilliant zigzags. Add timeless lyrics in which love, loss, and the light of experience are parceled up within perfect turns of poetic phrase.
Seattle's Green Pajamas should be perched atop every chart and revered universally. Alas, our strange, sad world makes not a lick of sense. ALL CLUES LEAD TO MEAGAN'S BED reminds you why Australia's small-in-size/huge-in-heart Camera Obscura label remains a bastion of eternal faith in Pajamas visionaries Jeff Kelly and Joe Ross. 1999's triumphant CLUES is simply glorious--rarefied and redolent of paradisiacal pop perfumes, packed with every imaginable manner of hook, harmony, and breathtaking bridge. Kelly's vocals melt like candy floss, sweetness barely disguising their delicious lyrical sting. Opener "The Secret of Her Smile" soars sky-high, and CLUES never comes down. 15 songs yield 15 highlights, with "Happy Again", "When She Comes", "Dear Jane", tingling "The Laughing Horseman", romantic "Queen of Sunshine", and Ross' powerful "Pastel Summer", and puzzle-box psychedelicacies "Rattlesnake Kiss", "Morning in Myra's Room", and "Death by Poisoning" standing out as instantly unforgettable.|