The melodies are light and sunny, the vocals soft as a down pillow, the arrangements lulling as a warm afternoon spent in a hammock.
Electronic dance rhythms skitter through the songs, and doleful lyrics describe ruined lives.
This is not your parent's easy-listening music. For the Navins, it's the culmination of seven years of devotion to an unfashionable sound. After forming The Aluminum Group in 1991, they persevered through the grunge explosion, self-releasing a pair of records. Suddenly, there was an acceptance, or the willingness to hear us. You'd be fool just to take influences from one sector in your life, so we have influences from the 80s and the 90s.