Beat Happening - Jamboree

3x****
Starts off nicely with a very loud riff in "Bewitched"****. Heather Lewis track "In Between" is much more playful. The Chiming "Indian Summer"**** is evocative of exactly that. The rock returns in "Hangman" and later with fast-rock "Midnight A Go-Go" an atypical song for BH. The title song and is sparse, and "Ask Me" is Heather Lewis a capella. "Crashing Through" is closest to 60's garage-rock. "Cat Walk" returns to the playful pop song type, and "Drive Car Girl" is as close to a typical BH song as the album has. After several similar sounding songs, "The This Many Boyfriends Club"**** ends the album with Calvin a capella over squawking feedback.

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