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Mystery Girls
Something in the Water
Release Date: 2004 05 04
Label: In the Red

This Green Bay, WI, band's second album is an unholy stew of sloppy, early-'70s Rolling Stones, Midwestern bar band sweat, Detroit proto-punk, and bits of '60s garage rock and psychedelia floating around here and there. Bluesy, boozy guitar rock (with harmonica) is at the base, but given a raucous, snide punky attitude in its execution. In a way, it's music that belongs to no real era; certainly it's revivalistic of some genres, but it doesn't fall neatly into either a late-'60s/early-'70s hard rock groove or a later punk-ish tributary. For some listeners, that description makes them sound like manna from heaven. But it's actually kind of ordinary and unremarkable, even given as hard as these guys are obviously trying to be raunchy and outrageous. The throaty vocals are artless, and what's worse, the production half-submerges them in the mix. Perhaps that was an intentional decision, but when you're working territory many bands have already dug into, lyrics can do something to make you stand out from the crowd. The result is a pretty blurry affair, both in sonics and conception, that like a blurry motion picture doesn't register sharply on the senses or the memory. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Autumn Turns to Fall	Dayvies	2:07
2	Tossin' and Turnin'	Dayvies, Kongher	1:56
3	Blues in G	Dayvies	2:54
4	Circles in the Sand	Dayvies, Kongher	2:25
5	Footsteps	Dayvies, Kongher	1:36
6	My Bed/Her Home	Dayvies	2:25
7	Pockets	Dayvies	2:14
8	Private Parade	Dayvies, Kongher	2:38
9	Radio Planet Blues	Dayvies	2:56
10	Silver and Gold	Dayvies, Grajeck	2:06
11	I Want Nothing of It [Live]	Dayvies	1:55
12	This Is Stereo	Dayvies	3:31
13	You're So Blue	Dayvies, Kongher	2:49