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Some
Favourite Quotes
"Now
the bands bittersweet jangle comes with a cosmic hue"
Review of TroubleCD in Rolling Stone Feb 2003
"the
Cannanes latest album Trouble Seemed so far Away is
one of the definitive musical highlights of 2002"
Meeshell Ho for Ozmusic project Nov 2002
"the
Cannanes can melt your heart with moonlit symphonies
more comforting than orchids and chenille"
Portland Mercury 26/7/01
"Their attraction undoubtedly lies in their
Australian identity, which often evokes the same mythmaking
as Brisbane's Go Betweens."
David Olivetti Rolling Stone April 2001
"... a dream-pop manifesto, but has anyone
ever woken up from a dream as gorgeous as "You Name
It"?"
Greil Marcus SALON 18/12/00
''Australia's secret pride, and the most casual
indie-pop band Anywhere''
VILLAGE VOICE October '00
''They have inspired more groups world-wide than
you and I have had hot dinners''
Shane O'Donohue INPRESS June '00
''The Cannanes are, without a doubt, Australia's
best-kept musical secret.''
SF WEEKLY July '99
''gorgeous barbed pop songs that sound deceptively
smooth until you listen to the lyrics - 'castigations
of dim friends, clueless ex-lovers and technologically
fostered isolation'. It's like biting into a chocolate
fudge cake and finding it filled with tongue-blistering
chilli''
Joanna Fag in BACK:BEAT June/July '99
''Each of this record's eleven tunes has a melody
warm enough to melt an iceberg and catchy enough to
hook a school of haddock with one cast.''
Bill Myer (reviewing Arty Barbecue) in INK BLOT '98
''It all adds up to another essential release
from one of the most criminally taken-for-granted bands
of our time.''
J Neo Marvin reviewing Arty Barbecue in PUNCTURE
42 July '98
''they've pre-empted every major music trend
of the past decade (ok, so they missed the boat on the
manchester thing...) AND done it with more guts and
honour than anything that followed''
(h.) in c.e Xmas '97
''The fluid Australian combo is willfully
amateurish and occasionally a bit too cute for its own
good, but the utterly unpretentious purity of the band's
output is hard to deny.''
dss in TROUSER PRESS GUIDE TO 90's ROCK 5th ed.'97
''I'm, getting tired of telling folks over and
over again how the Cannanes' unlikely lyrics, quick-shuffle
strumming, offhandedly-original vocal melodies, and
general endless-shoebox-of-pop makes them Exhibit A
among bands whose parlor-pop portable simplicity hasn't
prevented them from making very good music for a very
long thyme.''
Steve B in POPWATCH No.8 December '96
''I feel compelled to go out and gather
their rather extensive back catalogue. if only someone
would give me a list!''
Geoff Towner (reviewing 'The Cannanes' CD) in DRUM
MEDIA September '96
''to describe The Cannanes for you,
in a single image, would be this - James Joyce in exile
from his beloved homeland writing Ulysses on scraps
of newspaper.''
Richard Vogt in OTS August '96
''Plaintive music about the limits
of dreams, the Cannanes are a Ken Loach movie for your
ears''
Ann Powers VILLAGE VOICE March '96
''You'd be an idiot to miss this rare
chance to see the Cannanes, a group that practically
embodies the essence of truly independent truly personal
music.''
Richard Salty TIME OFF 23/11/94
''you'd be hard pressed to find prettier
songs than 'Perfect Light' and 'Chosen One.''
Matt Hickey ALTERNATIVE PRESS Oct. '94
''tonight I was reminded what good pop songs
should sound like''
Guy Blackman (live review) in SALTY & DELICIOUS Aug.
'94
'International Pop Conquorors'
Lauren Z IN PRESS 15/6/94
''The Cannanes will always be one
of my favourite bands. Like, I never remember the fact
, but each time I hear them I just think, 'F***, I love
this band''
Sarah Kestle (reviewing 'Witchety Pole') MELODY MAKER
18/9/93
''They are a bit quirky, a bit pop, a
bit reflective, and a bit jolly, but they are all class''
Michael Olliffe (live review) OTS 17/8/93
''Cannanes music, lies in the stylistic
lucky-dip somewhere between the Stooges & the Carpenters''
Kylie Burtland HONI SOIT 13/10/92
''The Last Of The Great Shamblers''
Everett True MELODY MAKER 8/10/88
''The Cannanes are pranksters of pop who poke their
jests at everyone including themselves''
Steven Cadbury RAM 21/1/88
''Kings of the do it now''
Simon Reynolds NME 3/1/87
''sound that is TIMELESS''
The Legend NME 1987 11/4/87
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