Has anyone heard it? Any good?

From RollingStone.com

The Like


Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?


There are reasons to be suspicious of the Like before actually hearing them: They're young, beautiful daughters of rock veterans (producers Mitchell Froom and Tony Berg, and Pete Thomas of Elvis Costello's Attractions). And like the members of Wilson Phillips, that earlier and similarly nepotism-blessed threesome, the Like's Charlotte Froom, Z Berg and Tennessee Thomas coo radio-ready melodies and sunny harmonies. Yet these Los Angelenos also write and play their own guitar-based tunes with an artful professionalism that belies their average age of nineteen. Produced by former Prince and the Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin, the band's debut occupies that small overlapping space between breezy commercial craft and alt-rock subversion. The acous-tic and electric guitars in Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? evoke the Eighties jangle-pop of the Smiths and the Sundays on shimmering tracks such as "You Bring Me Down." And with its pumping dance-rock rhythms and layered female vocals, "The One" suggests an all-girl slant on Boy-era U2. What's not to like?

The album is supposed to be in stores this week. They opened for Tori Amos on a few of her U.S. tour dates.

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if their ep is any indication this baby is gonna rock!!

i've had the full length for a few weeks now and i can say i really like them! they play real instruments. they sing with their real voices. its all very nice. all jokes aside, they are a fun band and i'm looking forward to catching a full set of their's since i only got to hear them play for about 20 minutes at the tori show.

i saw them at a Tori show. it was interesting.... for about 5 minutes. it seems to me they only have one song they keep re-arranging into four or five. and they were way too gimmicky for my tastes.


they seem a bit contrived to me. like a couple of chicks from the "womyn" club at college were sitting around and thought "oh, let's start a band. we'll have cute eclectic outfits and wacky stage presence. i'll get that guy that wants to date me but doesn't know i hate men to play bass and you can get your creepy uncle to play violin. and i'll play washboard. nobody plays washboard anymore. we'll be so cute!"

Tessa said:

wrong band. you're talking about the ditty bops. the like came on first.

SassyBritches said:

I was wondering what Tessa was talking about. Violin? Washboard?

sextonseven said:

it was the gimmicky comment that first let me know Tessa was on about somebody else.

SassyBritches said:

oh that's right. i liked the Like

I just got The Like CD during lunch today and listened to it for the first time this afternoon.

I really love this record. It's jangly, dreamy, alterna-pop. I predict I will listen to this album on almost a daily basis for the next few weeks. It will definitely make my top 10 of the year, possibly even top 5.

It's a very good CD. These young ladies will go far.

I saw the video for the single(?) "What I Say And What I Mean" last night on MTV2. There was lots of synchronized swimming involved.