VANESSA PETERS & ICE CREAM ON MONDAYS : LITTLE FILMS

  1. Little Films
  2. Love Story
  3. Anti-Hero
  4. Such Good Actors
  5. Signposts
  6. Moving Day
  7. Amelia
  8. No Sense
  9. Never Been Good
  10. Bonnie & Clyde
  11. Big Time Underground
  12. Fireworks
  13. Parting Scene
  14. Love Story (Reprise)

Label : Little Sandwich Music

Release Date : September 15, 2006

Length : 65:37

Review (Collected Sounds) : I've reviewed a few of Vanessa Peters's CDs in the past. I've enjoyed them all. This is her newest so let's just get down to it shall we? I love the melody and guitar part on "Little Films" it's just so fun, poppy and cheery. In fact this album is really melody driven. The songs are very well written both musically and lyrically. Vanessa's voice sounds great on "Love Story". That song is reprised at the end of the CD but in piano form. It's lovely. "Anti-Hero" is another really good pop song. She has some distortion on her voice, which is a cool effect. Lyrics here are clever too. I like how the theme of the album is motion pictures, movies, films. It's not so overpowering as to be considered a concept album, but the songs all tie into each other nicely. Actually as I run down these songs in order, they're all really well written fun pop songs. Pop enough to be fun and instantly likeable, but not so pop so as to be too mainstreamy. If this sounds like your idea of good music (it does mine) give this one a listen. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Review (Luna Kafé) : Vanessa Peters sings brightly like Natalie Merchant or Edie Brickell but with more drive behind the words. The new album is a neat collection of songs about films and their influence on our lives. "Love Story" chimes sweetly even as Peters sings of the complexity of love. "Such Good Actors" is a ballad with a good deal of Juliana Hatfield's lyrical smarts and ear for melody. "Moving Day" is a neat song, Peters singing of leaving a relationship behind to a soft melody. "Bonnie and Clyde" is an up tempo song that comes across as very pleasing. Peters and her band have made a nice record.