{"product_id":"up-with-the-larks-4047179047128","title":"Up with the Larks","description":"After an extended hiatus, Glasgow's the Pearlfishers return refreshed and improved with Up with the Larks, their sixth album for Marina Records - the latest in a line of orch-pop masterpieces. The album is clear evidence that main Pearlfisher David Scott continues his unique musical journey with renewed joy and verve - and that classic songwriting and well-crafted arrangements are alive and well in 2007. Joyous title track, \"Up with the Larks\" starts it off, rich with lush vocal harmonies, multi-layered guitar texture, the wild jangle of a battered upright piano and exquisite melodic twists and turns. Teenage Fan club's Norman Blake co-produced four of the album's cuts, starting with \"The Bluebells\" - a beautiful, string-laden rumination on the turning of seasons. \"Womack and Womack\" recalls Scott's early days running with the hawks of the major music industry and \"Ring the Bells for a Day\" is complete with the glittering Big Star chime of massed Fender Stratocasters. The Pearlfishers' 2006 Japanese tour with BMX Bandits is thrillingly recounted in \"The Umbrellas of Shibuya,\" a song which references Michel Legrand's classic movie opera, the Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but locates itself in a Tokyo rainstorm - with neon puddles, painted in Morricone banjos, Sakamoto synth blooms, Nilsson mouth music and, most tellingly, Scott's truly unique sense of melody and structure. Another highlight is the Randy Newman-esque \"With You on My Mind,\" which sounds like a lost Tin Pan Alley classic arranged by Van Dyke Parks. \"London's in Love\" could be the theme song to an as-yet-to-be-made romantic comedy blockbuster, set in the \"blue black air\" of Britain's capital, full of promise and heartbreak. The Pearlfishers, firmly rooted in the classic tradition of three-minute cinematics as pioneered by Webb, McCartney and Rufus Wainwright, reach a great finale with the album's closing songs: \"Blue Riders on the Range,\" a sparkling widescreen epic (sounding like Marvin \u0026amp; Diana doing Ram) and the gorgeous, pastoral \"I Just See the Rainbow,\" which ends the album on an optimistic note.","brand":"Marina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46225130487891,"sku":"453036X","price":14.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/1139959_68dd7e8b-d0fb-4963-aa64-838e744f5b28.jpg?v=1789132317","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/up-with-the-larks-4047179047128","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}