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Album Review

Piney Gir
The Yearling Hotel Records

Article written by Ged M - Nov 25, 2009

Piney Gir: The Yearling

This is Piney’s most diverse, inventive and accomplished record. Peekahokahoo was essentially electro-Piney and Hold Yer Horses was country-Piney. The Yearling sweetly bobs between hook-filled pop (the uber-catchy ‘Say I’m Sorry’), Disney-esque showtunes (‘Love Is A Lonely Thing’), Tropicalia (the room temperature leaps 10 degrees whenever I play ‘Oleanna’) and chamber pop (the spooky ‘Miss Haversham’). She employs a daunting array of instruments, including theremin, singing saw, harp and accordion; if the kitchen sink doesn’t get a look in, the pots and pans are definitely utilised percussively.

Piney’s always had a way with melodic pop with a hint of sadness but this time the simpliest songs have a rich seam of melancholy, relating relationships foundering on deceit and betrayal. ‘Not Your Anything’ is a bittersweet rejection of the rejectors and perhaps the most barbed we’ve ever heard Piney but she shades the misery with humour, her spiky duet with Brakes’ Eamon (‘Of All The Wonderful Things’) adding a happy ending. 'Hello Halo' is a vibrant Western Swing trip back to her native Kansas while the brilliant ‘Blixa Bargeld’s Bicycle’ rolls words around in quirky imagery and a lovely melody. My only quibble is with the title; “yearling” suggests a wobbly kneed immature animal, but this record is strong, assertive and elegant - a real throughbred.

Links:
http://www.pineygir.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pineygir