Album Reviews
On their latest album, NY metro area 90s guitar pop afficionados Scoville Unit come at you armed with jangly, fuzzed up guitars and a seemingly endless amount of melodic hooks. Add some lyrical positive vibes and you have an album that is hard to resist. You know, the kind that leaves you with a big, goofy smile plastered all over your face.
Opener ‘Reasons’ is a glorious pop gem that tells the story of a man who can’t focus on anything else when his significant other is around, only to then realize he shouldn’t be focusing on anything other than her anyway. Cute, right? And a damn fine song too. ‘Pure Energy’ more than lives up to its title. Prett self-explanatory. The band whips out some keyboards for ‘In The Shade,’ a perfect song to accompany all of your summer lounging, lets you slide into a deep slumber with the more gentle ‘Sleeping Pill’, while ‘Mannequin’ is another burst of unadulterated power-pop excellence that will have you nodding along in no time.
The band - which gets their name from the scale that measures the spiciness of chili peppers - released their last album somewhere before the pandemic hit, resulting in them not being able to support the album on the road. It led to them making this album though, so at least some good came from the unexpected hiatus.
See What Can Be track list:
- Reasons
- Fire Pit
- Pure Energy
- In The Shade
- Mannequin
- Sleeping Pill
- Home
- Backseat
- You’re Right
- Get Back To You
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
