Acid Archives Review of Silver Laughter’s “Handle With Care” From 2006

Acid Archives Cover

Acid Archives Cover

For some reason I never thought to look for the book, “Acid Archives”, which had been mentioned by some of the Silver Laughter reviewers; that is, until last week. I ordered a copy I found online and will impart those reviews to you of both Silver Laughter albums as well as one of The Contents Are: first album, “Through You”.

Acid Archives HWC Review

Acid Archives HWC Review

Here is the first of those reviews of “Handle With Care” found on page 225 of the book. Though I disagree with some of the reviewer’s comments, he does have some valid comments on weak points in the album which I have mentioned in other articles on this site. One is the cohesiveness (or lack of it) of the album as a whole. However, all in all, it is a pretty good overview of our first recording effort.

I particularly like “…their songwriting is strong, the singing excellent… there’s a reasonable amount of variety in their songwriting…”. What is meant by the last line “…geeky wanna-be pop stars with 70’s hair…” I have no idea. After all, wouldn’t 70’s hair be appropriate since a) we had it and b) it was the 70’s. Perhaps I will look up the author, Aaron Milenski, and see if I can get him to clarify!

Mick Orton



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