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St. Petersburg Times, Gina Vivinetto, September 5, 2004 TIMEWELLSPENT, TIMEWELLSPENT
(WWW.PARASOL.COM) Timewellspent is a duo from Fort Lauderdale whose eponymous debut album was produced by Thom Monahan of the Pernice Brothers. Singer-guitarist Casey Fundaro and Christopher Moll, who plays guitar, piano and various other instruments (vibes, glockenspiel, percussion), write the dreamiest of pop. If you love the sophistication and airiness of Burt Bacharach tunes, the harmonies of the Beatles and the Beach Boys, the layers of 1970s Pink Floyd, you will sink into the songs of timewellspent. The album is a bit conceptual, beginning and ending with brief instrumentals, Hello and Goodbye, and linked by a couple of interludes. I Want To Tell You uses Fundaro's gentle vocals, snappy bossanova-ish percussion, gurgling synths and backing harmonies to form the sweetest pop confection. The spacey, downtempo Anyone to Be and the morosely witty piano ballad Millionaire call to mind the Flaming Lips and more modern groups. The horns and maracas of Probably would likely delight Bacharach. Miss the Zombies and all the trippy, organ-fueled psychedelic greats of the 1960s? Crank up Sitting by the Window. You'd think all this genre hopping would come across as a fragmented mess, but timewellspent sounds surprisingly whole, a collection of smart pop, with the best of influences.
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