The Cannanes专辑介绍：by Ned RaggettFor their self-titled release the Cannanes expanded to a five-piece, with Ivor Moulds contributing drums on a number of tracks while Francesca Bussey added bass and vocals. Rotating around with the regulars on those instruments must have been a bit interesting to work out, but the end result is another fine Cannanes album, gentle underground rock/pop jangle for those unafraid of such things. If hearing a song about a dearly departed doggie ("Caesar") gives one hives, then one should look elsewhere (as it is, said song is great, one of the numbers where Bussey takes lead with her similar-to-Gibson vocals). Things are a touch more crisp on this album than on others, but only just -- the soft focus fuzz and hum that is as much an element of the Cannanes as anything else still coats everything in a fine warm glow. O'Neil gets in some slightly unexpected guitar work here and there -- the heavily-compressed semi-wah-wah on "Asleep," to pick an example, that adds an extra element of power to the quick-paced track. "Drug-Induced Delirium" makes for a great start, a slow builder of a track that features the gently ironic touch of Gibson singing about 'writing these songs for you' when in fact it's Nichols' lyric. Nichols himself has a scream of a song, "3-Way Release," with his bemused, mostly spoken-word rendition of a day of talking with friends and pondering life over what is probably the band's most full-on, rock-out track ever. "Pedagogy (The Mystery of You)" comes pretty close to that, though, with O'Neil cranking the amps to the point of loud, trance-like levels as Gibson turns in a particularly fine vocal, sweetly slurred just enough, and a low, brooding bassline. "Swing, You Little Red Devil" wraps it up with a lightly funky and quite amusing meditation on Jesus' doings on earth -- and why not?