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MP3 Goldcure - Pretty Polly Horrorshow
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The journey begins on a teasing note of hurry up and wait. The simple,
ringing guitar strum that opens “Too Long,” the first track on
Goldcure’s Portugese Prince, conveys the coiled tension of a racehorse
stomping at the gate — or, literally, the thrilling countdown of a
young band poised for launch. But then there’s the entreaty to “Be
patient, dear,” hinting at what seems to be cautious hesitation. “I’m
not who I said I am,” the line continues, “You must know/I’ve no place
to go but here.”
Don’t believe it. Because with all due respect to Goldcure frontman
Adam Buhrman and band co-founder Craig Haskell, who are nothing if not
sincere when they candidly discuss their still ongoing search for a
fully realized sound, the fact of the matter is that they’ve already
arrived. From the soaring “Too Long” (which blasts off shortly after
that teasing opening verse) through to the perfect landing of the
Haskell-sung closer, “Beautiful Disaster,” Portugese Prince is a debut
that evokes the unmistakable promise of early U2 — if U2 had arrived
onto the scene almost fully grown with the confident swagger and focus
of War or even The Unforgettable Fire. That’s a helluva claim for any
new band to live up to, and one the members of Goldcure shyly deflect,
but the record itself almost seems to demand such a bold spotlight.
The songs and performance can take the heat. Much like the royal
orphanof the album’s title track, the members of Goldcure may
still be reticent to fully acknowledge their grand destiny —
but they’re clearly off to very auspicious start.
A lot of credit for the album’s success is due to the guiding hand of
Portugese Prince producer Stephen Doster, the journeyman songwriter
and guitarist who picked up on Goldcure’s potential the very first
time he heard them. Call it deja-vu: two-and-a-half decades earlier,
Doster had been recording his own debut with another distinguished
guitar-hero producer, James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders. That
album was never finished; Honeyman-Scott died shortly after they
started working together. But there was something about Goldcure’s
sound — all big guitars and keening, harmony-laced melodies — that
Doster found irresistible. “Working with them is like unfinished
business with me,” explains Doster, who in addition to producing
Portugese Prince has also signed on as Goldcure’s personal manager.
“Although there are many influences, you can definitely hear Honeyman
floating around in there.”
You can hear more than a little David Bowie in Goldcure’s musical DNA,
too, along with the aforementioned U2, the Smiths, David Byrne and
Richard Ashcroft of the Verve (at least in terms of Buhrman’s
expressive vocals). But more so than any external influences (direct
or indirect), Goldcure’s sound stems from the chemistry of its four
members: Buhrman and Haskell on vocals and guitars, longtime friend
Gavin Inverso on drums and relative newcomer Marcos Lujan on bass.
“That’s always been the vision of this band,” Buhrman insists.
“Whatever sound we come up with, it’s going to be the combination of
the right guys together. And we’re going to keep it like that and
build on that.”
In the big picture then, maybe that album-opening “be patient” line
isn’t about hesitation at all. It’s a promise — bolder perhaps than
this writer’s comparison of the fledgling young outfit to one of the
biggest bands in the world — of even better things to come. Or, as Goldcure assures us later on the record, “It’s not over yet.”
-Richard Skanse
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