http://harpmagazine.com/reviews/cd_reviews/detail.cfm?article_id=5863

The contrast between verse and chorus, subtle or drastic, can turn an
average song into a heart-tugging piece of pop bliss. Matt Tow, who fronts
Australian pretty things the Lovetones, knows this. On the band’s third
album, “Pieces of Me” makes a drastic key change between verse and chorus,
pulsed by a flute-y mellotron, and it slays. The hook in “Ordinary Lives”
comes when the tender verse resolves into a grandiose crescendo of
Bowie-esque proportions. Tow, who has also logged time with the Brian
Jonestown Massacre, doesn’t stop there. Axiom overflows with meticulous
arrangements full of jangly seventh chords, piano countermelodies and
melodic bass lines that elevate the song structures. He might know all the
tricks of the ’60s psychedelia, but the end result sounds current instead of
psych-by-numbers. And “Alone” closes the album describing the title in a
modern way that the Summer of Love wouldn’t allow: “It’s something we all
feel.”

By Mike Shanley

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