Album Review – Scissors for Lefty – Underhanded Romance

Scissors for Lefty
Underhanded Romance
Eenie Meenie Records
Listen if you love/Avoid if you Hate: OK Go, Pulp/Jarvis Cocker, Hot Hot Heat
Rating: 3.5/5

San Francisco-based Scissors For Lefty ’s latest album, Underhanded Romance, always makes me feel like some Mission Hipster. It’s an album you’d think about after leaving a Helio Sequence show at the Rickshaw: it’s midnight, and everybody is coming over to your place. It’s the sort of music you’d put on, push the coffee table out of the way, and start dancing around in your socks. Flirt with that cute girl with no makeup and skinny jeans beneath her skirt. Jump up and down in step with the Jew’s Harp on “Mama Your Boys Will Find a Home”.

While it’s an addictive, fun, insouciant album that makes a happy dancing afternoon an awesome dancing afternoon, it’s not the sort of album to uplift anyone’s spirits. It’s got some great bounce-around-in-your-chair tracks, like “Lay Down Your Weapons”, and “Nickels and Dimes”, but it tends to get shy and loses you with tracks like “Save it Cory” or “Marsha”.

Recommendation: Get it for Christmas.

online track:
Christmas Intentions

Video (in Hot Color!) for “Ghetto Ways”:

-Liberty Young

~ by snarking on December 11, 2007.