Route 66

This Danish trio, as guitarist, singer, and songwriter Claes Johansen confessed within the liner notes towards the reissue of the sole LP, played “almost all self-composed material inspired by people like Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson Band, and Squeeze.” That’s precisely accurate: Johansen, who published all of the band’s materials, followed these trio of symbols in approximately that order. Actually, you’d never believe that this music group wasn’t British using their cleanly carried out, melodic audio, with origins in power-pop and pub-rock. When their recording was documented in 1984, they currently sounded a little retro, though not really in a pressured method. Their record company’s Danish branch shut the week it arrived, and only 500 copies had been pressed, though it was reissued on Compact disc in 1997. The music group battled on for a little bit, documenting a mini-album in 1987 that proceeded to go unreleased (although it’s available these days on the Compact disc version from the 1984 LP), and split up in early 1988. These were completely derivative of past due-’70s British fresh influx/power-pop, but followers of that type shouldn’t experience guilty about taking pleasure in Route 66 non-etheless. They may possess lacked personality, however they had been very proficient at what they do, and their recordings — wholly unfamiliar within the U.S. — are much better than those of several similar early-’80s works who enjoy wider reputation among collectors.