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My Favorite Album: Ginger, frontman with British rockers The Wildhearts, relates the pleasures of listening to the pre-Partridge Family dysfunctional brood.
Ginger: My Latest Obsession. For some, the enveloping grip of a new musical love equals that of a new partner. Only with as many flings as your desires can consume. A new one every six months even.
I say obsession, but obsession becomes addiction when fear is replaced by pleasure. And few things bring me as much pleasure as falling into a new musical relationship with something I'd previously somehow managed to live without.
My newest is The Cowsills. Yes, that pre-Partridge Family dysfunctional brood, responsible for releasing much late sixties, tooth-bothering sugar pop. And that Hair song.
After falling apart in a nightmarish paternal drama, sometime early '70s, they continued to release some fantastic albums, with even a 'lost' album called The Cocaine Drain, only available on YouTube (oh and it's brilliant. Just check out the tracks 'You Got A Way To Make Me Smile' and 'Is Your Love Alive').
And the best bit? They're still going, releasing music as recently as 2024, with the purely impressive Global.
The Cowsills make music by music lovers for music lovers. Expansive vocal harmonies and enough quirky chords to save drowning in pastiche. Imagine ABBA with The Hollies on backing vocals, stick a slight country flavor to it, and you have the wonderfully odd and unique The Cowsills.
The Wildhearts' new single "Troubadour Moon" from the forthcoming studio album Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts is out now.
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