Earlier this month www.absolutepowerpop raved over this artist and I wanted to confirm this amazing find. Bill Majoros is a fixture of Hamilton Ontario’s music scene having been in many local bands, including The Cloudsmen in 2003. After he hooked up with Carl Jennings, they started this new project. This newest creation is The Foreign Films and if you’re into Robert Harrison’s Future Clouds and Radar or any Cotton Mather this is manna for your soul. The Foreign Films stylistically sound like John Lennon meets Guided By Voices with a bit of 10cc thrown in. The opening track “Remember to Forget” draws you in and the rest of the album won’t let you go. Rather than a group of disconnect songs, you get a sense of the epic themes of lost love, and alienation throughout the two disc set. “Invisible Heart” is the cool psych-pop tune that the Lonely H did well with a bit of Todd Rundgren thrown in. Like classic albums of the past – the Who’s “Quadrophenia” or The Beatles “White Album” – this is a classic double album. During the three years he worked on it Bill put his heart and soul into this and make no mistake, it sounds like it. The entire arc of 22 songs hits it’s stride with Badfinger-like “Lonely #1” and picks up tempo and steam with the poppy Beatles influenced “Smoke and Mirrors.” Not a bad track here either, amazingly the album continues to get brighter in tone and better the longer it plays. My one of my favorites here is the amazing “Polar Opposites” complete with Beach Boys inspired “ba-ba” vocal flourishes. “Cinema Light” is another winner with lush harmonies and great hooks. Blistering guitars take over on “Arcade By The Beach” and it ends with the baroque and complex suite “The Snowglobe.” This makes my top ten list (which is now turning into a top twenty). If ever an artist deserves to be “discovered” outside his native Canada, Bill Majoros and The Foreign Films is it. Order this from CD Baby and you will not be dissapointed.
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