Number of Discs1
ReviewsQ (6/00, p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A novel splicing of boy-band looks with sunny power-pop....Brandishing 4-paqrt harmonies...and the kind of surf-splashed melodies on which Neil Finn built a career....Too perfect by half."
Additional informationHailing from Australia, Taxride is a young, impressive rock outfit whose debut album IMAGINATE is presented here. Fifteen songs and some enhanced content are included. CD contains 1 bonus track. This Melbourne, Australia quartet has a feel for the glossy harmonies of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Everly Brothers, but with a '90s sensibility. The sitar hook on "Get Set," for example, shares more kinship with Kula Shaker than George Harrison, but the song's four-part harmonies are every bit as Beatlesque. With production by Jack Joseph Puig (Goo Goo Dolls, Semisonic), Imaginate is a slick record with rough edges being smoothed by strings, softly distorted guitars, and Bacharach-style horn sections -- a true bid for pop radio. ~ Steve Kurutz