You don’t have to look too far these to find a band willing to plough the revisionist furrow these days and This Morning Early – originally formed way back in the nineties – duly get their tractor out and plant some of their musical seed with their self-titled album.
Interestingly, The Morning Early aren’t purveyors of the sound of Glasgow in the nineties but are instead practised practitioners of the never lost art of exorcising the sounds of west coast America in the late sixties. It might seem incongruous that a band of yesterday and then today would want to take a reverential revisitation to a time when they probably weren’t even born yet these eleven songs all easily evidence a respect for those halcyon days when harmonies and jangly guitars were where it was at with only the last song on the album – “Always On The Run” - holding to its own, rather grungier and emotionally intense, course.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with making the styled sounds of the past accessible to the people of the present and this album also provides enough evidence that this band could dance to their own tune should it be so required.