Stan Whitaker & Frank Wyatt

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After the advent of their comeback album The Muse Awakens and a bunch of concerts, Happy the Man's main writers Wyatt and Whitaker found themselves unable to keep the momentum going for too long. All other HTM members had to devote themselves to their own musical and life projects, so Wyatt and Whitaker took advantage of the fact that they lived not too far away from each other and still wanted to to record tracks that had been left out of The Muse Awakens or new tracks that they had written shortly after. Before their current band Oblivion Sun was formed, there was this duo project called Pedal Giant Animals (guest drummer Chris Mack eventually will become Oblivion Sun's drummer). This 2006 is the result of this continuing creativity, and it is no HTM facsimile, indeed, despite the noticeable presence of some HTM signtature sonorities in some of the tracks. This album is really an intimate look into the most relaxing side of these two minds' creative souls. The romantic moods of 'Pink Sky' and 'Love' are a clear sign of the introspective side of the kind of art-rock these two guys are devoted to. They may remind us a bit of the ballads in the Better Late... album (the posthumous 3rd album by the classic HTM ine-up). 'Whole' is also very romantic, albeit with a stylish vibe that may remind us of a Baroque-meets-new age kind of stuff. Among these first four numbers is 'Chapter Seven', an effective rock that bears an undeniable appeal upon a not too fast 7/8 tempo. The duo's ro

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