(TV) o/t Wild Carnation + Chicago Sun Times - 3 1/2 stars

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Wild Carnation as featured in today's Chicago Sun Times Spin Control Column


INDIE-ROCK
Wild Carnation, "Superbus" (Lucky Pig Records) Critic's rating: *** 1/2

Although they broke up after their fourth album "Time for a Witness" (1991), the Feelies 
still loom large as an influence on inventive rock bands, with echoes of their swelling 
melodies and trademark "crazy rhythms" in the Strokes and the Arcade Fire, to name only 
two. Fans of the New Jersey quintet have been hoping for a reunion for years, and while 
there's no sign that will ever happen, they can content themselves with the rare but always 
fulfilling release from veteran Glenn Mercer (who's issuing a solo album later this year) 
and Brenda Sauter, the vocalist, bassist and leader of Wild Carnation. Sauter's group made 
its impressive debut as a guitar, bass and drums trio with a single and an album 
("Tricycle") released by the then Chicago-based Delmore Records in 1995. Twelve years 
may seem like a ridiculously long wait between releases, but then the Feelies were never 
a band to be rushed, either, preferring to craft their mysterious sounds in their suburban 
basement laboratory, and waiting to issue them until they had a suitably impressive set. 
Now expanded to a quartet with the addition of a wonderfully droning Farfisa organ, Wild 
Carnation does the Feelies' legacy proud on 10 lovely and hypnotic songs produced by 
fellow indie-rock legend James Mastro of the Bongos, with Sauter's limited but charming 
vocals (think Maureen Tucker of the Velvet Underground) and the group's variation of that 
familiar undertow rhythm grabbing and holding the spotlight.

Jim DeRogatis

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