The Weepies - Hideaway Album Review

The Weepies
Hideaway
Nettwerk
Album Review

When you gain celebrity fans and find other musicians paying homage to you you, you know something good's happening, further more, when your music's being featured on TV shows and movies people start to take note.

Married couple Deb Talan and Steve Tannen are The Weepies. On their own they sound exactly like Shawn Colvin and Jackson Browne. As a duo they sound like them too, with additional gentle folk full of choruses that would test no-one, and upset even fewer.

Like Cocteau Twins they have a similar hypnotic feel but after a few tracks of the same thing, you really need something extra to get your teeth stuck into. The twee pop just continues for too long, it's held at a steady 10 on the 'tweelifier'. The Weepies have concocted a winning formula for many of the tracks on 'Hideaway' like 'All Good Things', 'Can't Go Back Now', 'Orbiting' and 'Hideaway', it's just a shame this isn't a shorted EP rather than a full album, as it plays through it becomes more and more like an ice-cream headache, you keep on eating the ice-cream cause it's good but the pain's ever increasing.

Still, there's most certainly an audience for 'Hideaway', if you've had enough of raucous punk or rap records and feel you need something 'sugar coated' perhaps try this; but for me, Hideaway is a U-rated record that won't appeal to too many adults or small kids.

3/5

Mike Rea