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Alongside "Meet Me in the Garden", these songs represent a sufficiently enjoyable portion of the record.
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Just as pleasant is his reverential take on the Four Preps' 1957 classic "26 Miles (Catalina)", a wise cover choice since it fits snugly within his aesthetic. One of the record's most charming cuts is "Oh Paris!", which finds May doing his best Morrissey atop strumming ukulele (yes, it is omnipresent) and "shoo-be doo-be" backing vocals. If you can look past these cringe-inducing moments, The Good Feeling Music occasionally lives up to its title. Prompting more winces on "You Can't Force a Dance Party", May revisits a hipster get-together gone awry: "All the way from Brooklyn, Sally came to see me", he says, but laments spoiling the fun by being "in the corner reading poetry and prose." On "College Town Boy", he awkwardly pokes fun at the academic set, singing, "Since graduation day he feels like a fraud, he still regrets he never studied abroad." Yikes. But May's attempts at winking cultural criticism often undercut his authenticity. That's much easier to do with a fellow like Jonathan Richman (with whom May shares an innocent-guy outlook and is often compared to), because his naiveté comes across as genuine and is leavened with humor. Since it's inseparable from the album's content, one really has to buy into the persona May is selling in order to enjoy The Good Feeling Music of Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele. ("Meet Me in the Garden", all tiki torches and umbrella drinks, might as well be the soundtrack to a backyard cookout thrown by Mad Men 's Betty Draper.) Combined with his tongue-in-cheek lyrics, it can be a lot of shtick to swallow at once. For this record, at least (allegedly there's a dance project in the works under his Dent Sweat alter ego), he functions entirely within the boundaries of the schmaltzy barroom pop and suburbanized island music of the 1950s and 60s. May shares those gents' strong grasp of melody (his songs are nothing if not hook-laden) but unlike them he is a strict genre specialist. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/David_Banner_-_Mississippi_The_Album.The Mississippi native offers here a kind of modern-day lounge act- approaching his material as part sentimentalist, part jokester- and sings in a manner closely reminiscent of indie pop vocalists like Stephin Merritt and Jens Lekman.
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