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Jill Cunniff, City Beach

by Glenn Fullington
01/16/2008

Jill Cunniff's new album, City Beach, is a poppy acoustic jaunt through songs about pretty, laid back people who are either really good or really bad at keeping promises. Regardless, Jill stays positive about the whole situation, or at least ferociously independent (read: indifferent.)

Cunniff shows off her musical prowess with her strong and varied vocal presence. She also plays guitar, bass and solely produced the majority of the album. A session drummer would have benefited the album and alleviated the lifeless swat of drum pad samples.

Cunniff also seems to be desperately pursuing some shiny utopian love with a NYC Boy who lives in some Apartment 3 and is apparently very pretty.

It ultimately provides bubbly songs for road trip montages involving convertibles, helicopter flybys and littering scarves onto the byways of our nations previously scarf free interstate system.

Cheerfulness drips off of the pink CD; they should have marketed it as audio Pepto-Bismol. It is bound to make someone feel better, but I'll pass on the chalky elixir.