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Single Review: Drink Up Buttercup – Mr Pie Eyes (Make Mine)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 10 November 2008
Challenging Animal Collective for the title of North America’s top modern day psych-pop stars, Drink Up Buttercup look to the 60s for their inspiration, emerging, as they do, from a saturated US alt-pop market with interesting aplomb. ‘Mr Pie Eyes’ would terrify a three year old, with a persistent, distorted chorus that can’t be far off what goes through the head of Alex DeLarge in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. The Theremin, meanwhile, is thrown in for a suitably other-worldly effect. ‘Gods & Gentlemen’ on the b-side is a more traditional affair, inspired, I reckon, more by The Beatles’ later years. It’s a more simple take, though no less interesting, and it provides the band with a viable alternative route, should the Theremin break or they decide they don’t want to make children cry anymore. TM
