Connections - Private Airplane (New Vinyl LP)

I don't want to talk about the Ohio water, as in what's in it, as the raison d'être for another instant classic of underground pop to surface to vinyl with Connections' Private Airplane. This allusion is justifiably thrown up in the hands of well-wishers at a loss for words, yet to say Ohioans are dosed from the tap with a certain knack is to slight what constitutes the substance. Other liquids are more conspicuously involved: blood, beer, whiskey and gasoline - although I wouldn't recommend that order. Songs like "Finally", "Casuals", "Cindy" and "Love St." don't just happen, albeit by the time we hear them it certainly seems like they do; spontaneously, with whatever working degree of immaculacy you uphold. The five members of Connections are not bystanders for a conduit; Kevin Elliott and Andy Hampel of 84 Nash, Adam Elliott of Times New Viking, Dave Capaldi of El Jesus de Magico and 'peach district laureate' Philip Kim have been clocking in for awhile now. Private Airplane is a result of their craft; fifteen paragons of song, each laden with hooks you can't pay for, never mind get, anywhere else. - Elizabeth Murphy (Memphis, TN 2012)

 Tracklist

A1     Finally     
A2     On Your Mind     
A3     Miller's Grove     
A4     Sister City     
A5     Cindy     
A6     Mall Lights     
A7     Nightwatch     
A8     Stuck Lung     
B1     Totally Carpool     
B2     Casuals     
B3     Capitol Of Strange Cravings     
B4     1980 Called     
B5     I Can Fix Memories     
B6     Strays     
B7     Love St.

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