Sound SXP
This is a clearly a manufactured creation stitched together from the body of a Kink, the legs of a Hollie and the head of a Beatle, but it's also classy 60s-saturated power pop. The Milwaukee trio were formed in '96 not '66 but they've got a fine line in Brit-invasion tunes. It might be familiar-sounding stuff but it's still bright, harmonic and very likeable. Vocalist Mike Jarvis has a warm-sounding voice reminiscent of Alasdair MacLean from the Clientele and there are some nice harmonies from his two bandmates. 'Dance With Me' sounds like a male version of the Bangles while janglesome 'Summer Rain' could easily fit onto a tweecore playlist. In fact the songs from Cathedral Square Park wouldn't be out of place on a Beatles/ Badfinger/ Big Star, etc power pop classic compilation.
Brumbeat
THE LACKLOVES - Cathedral Square Park (Rainbow Quartz) I don't know how many Beatles soundalikes there are in Milwaukee, but chances are Mike Jarvis's trio are up there with the best of them. And it's not just the Fab Four that rings their bells. All ringing guitars and harmonies, this is pure 60s pop that takes the British beat invasion also repped by bands like The Hollies and Kinks and laces it with the jangly folk-rock of the Byrds and (especially on Space Age Romeo) a liberal dose of West Coast psychedelia. Then there's Marlena which is Buddy Holly reincarnated while Belong To Sunday could have come from a lost Monkees episode. With On My Way, Hallmark Stars, and surfpop Another Kind of Girl adding to the urge to rush out, buy a sherbet dab and have a mop top haircut, this is disposable but thoroughly enjoyable retro fun.