Silvery/ Railway Architecture

Silvery
Railway Architecture
(Blow Up Records)

You won't find Silvery posing in a graveyard, wearing black leather and pretending to be Lou Reed's opium-addicted lovechildren. This is because of one very good reason: they are silly.
Yes silly, a forgotten quality amongst most modern rock bands. If anything, the last decade has forgotten about silly, because it was too busy acclaiming itself while stroking its very serious chin hairs.
Time to loosen up then, and songs like 'The Naked & The Dead' do exactly this: led by a vocalist who sounds like a brain in a fish tank hooked up to wires, the song skids giddily along on a drunken melody before heading into a climax stolen from Bowie's 'Rock and Roll Suicide' (well, rather that than the fecking Beatles again).
Like any decent pop album, this one's bursting with ideas. 'Two Halves of the Same Boy' is a bar-room piano jig, 'The Quaire Fellow' is a bit like Blur before they became too proud to be weird, while 'You Give A Little Love' is a straight faced rendition of the Bugsy Malone theme. And guess what? It ro-ho-hocks!
In the spirit of not taking yourself seriously then, I'll sign off under my porn name. In the meantime, please hunt down this album.