The Ninth Amendment - Soft Sunshine Soul download free

The Ninth Amendment were a decent band -- they had the Mamas & the Papas style of sunny-California folk-pop down pat, and sentimentality is the lowest emotion to which they ever appeal. The bare-bones production, while it limits some of the songs (shiny compression from the source tape sucks the air out of more than a few tracks), luckily keeps their playing simple and direct. Their great strength is in the songwriting: producer-composer Glenn Scott, the music teacher who assembled these high school students, has a terrific melodic sensibility, and the musical structures are just a little too unusual to qualify these as perfectly hummable, perfectly derivative pop songs. Choruses which emerge from verses almost without warning (see "Little Bit of Time" and "You Need Someone"), and the bizarre numbers of beats in each line, reward repeated listens.If anyone wants an .mp3 copy, send my Discogs profile a message.