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Whispering Bob / The Stars of Track and Field - Wheat is Murder (Truck)
Following on the mellow mood, here's another couple of gentle songs, this time from Whispering Bob. Suitably released at this time of dramatic weather, the opening track is called Hurricane. Maybe it's the perfect song to listen to when you're in one, with its gentle calming effect. It also has the greatest rhyme for Hurricane... EVER!...(When it came / the hurricane). Joy is A High Window almost deserves to be the a-side itself, if only for the flute melody line. It's the song that probably describes the Whispering Bob sound best (if there's such a thing) with their love of using unconventional group intruments (the flute) and the high harmonies that make them different from most of the other guitar bands that are around at the moment. The Stars of Track and Field are probably the only local band that could have followed the first two stunning songs, and to continue the same theme, while taking it in a different direction. Their first song, The Worst Part of Me is the angsty type of song that you'd write after just splitting up. It's a strange mixture of the sweet female vocals and the angry male vocals (yet tuneful) and lyrics. But it works. This is Where I Scar is probably the most surprising song on the CD. It starts gently (like all the other songs) but then about 4 minutes in the instruments take over from the vocals, and suddenly it's feedback and high-pitched, uncomfortable sounds galore. You're left thinking at the end of the track....What the fuck was that??? and then you listen to it again....but still to find the ending a total surprise.

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