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**1/2 Happy Bunny
HAPPY BUNNY
(Chickenhead)
This debut mini-album from Bostonians
Happy Bunny sure is clean. Their mellow, lightweight songs are solid, well
written with vocal hooks and some smart harmonies (with a cameo by great local
singer Gabrielle Holmes) to keep things catchy. The band lean toward a folky
pop that, at its extreme, even sounds a bit like 10,000 Maniacs ("Signal") save
for Jim Horan's low baritone, which treads a line somewhere between John Doe
and Evan Dando. The lyrics are of the self-depreciating introspective-love-song
variety; in "Stupid," Horan sings, "Stupid, can't you see?/She drifted and she
ain't coming back," which is what you expect from this sort of thing. Although
"Postman," "Green," and "Stupid" do get feisty, they never quite over-the-top
rock-out the way you think they might on stage.
-- Michael Piantigini
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