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Day I Forgot
04/04/2003 8:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mike Lipton
That Pete Yorn has a gold record under his belt is encouraging in itself. The New Jersey native's short run has already established him both as an unusually seasoned songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist with an ear for hooks. Yorn, who played all the instruments on Musicforthemorningafter (and has scored several films) enlisted regulars Ken Andrews and Tim Dow as well as fellow handyman R. Walt Vincent. While not as musically expansive as Musicforthemorningafter, Yorn has narrowed his focus and, when he digs into a groove--as in the gritty, murky (if a tad mindless) rock of "Carlos (Don't Let It Go To Your Head)"--he bears down harder than he has in the past. Elsewhere, Yorn falls back into familiar--and his strongest--territory on "Pass Me By," which melds Pettyesque rock and harmonies with R.E.M.-styled hooks, and "Long Way Down," which melds his sense of melody with heady shoegazer sonics. Lyrically, Yorn has taken something of a holiday. His keen insights into relationships have been replaced with non-sequiturs and lines like "If you want a burrito, you can have another bite of mine/it could last you forever" ("Burrito"). And while he never quite matches the dreamy "Simonize" of Musicforthemorningafter, he makes up for it with "Turn Of The Century" and the gorgeous closer, "So Much Work."
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