SUPER 8

Retro Metro

Think Like A Key Music

The new album from one man band Paul “Trip” Ryan AKA SUPER 8 is sunshine pop in the style of mid 60s British Invasion rock, mostly the Beatles. It's very good--light without being lightweight, fun, with good beats, and yes, you can dance to it.

Lyrically it’s mostly romantic ups and downs, except for the instant classics “Just A Song,” which is about good music, and the Byrdsy stomp of “Almost Anything,” about unrequited love.

All the albums and singles I’ve heard from SUPER 8 have been great, fun, and yes, retro, but in a really good way, one that looks to the past to inform the present and never in a way that seems reactionary. This one’s not to be missed, so pick it up.

Andrea Weiss