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Stand Up for Your Mother is one of those charming, endearing records that sounds like it could have been made by the people next door, especially if the people next door are cute middle-class twentysomething urbanites with jobs they hate. Songwriter Paul Pittman's melodies are almost always instantly accessible, but it's the sour-and-sweet combination of his and singer Lucy Bain's vocals that gives the songs, and the band, a distinctive character. "The City You Live in Is Ugly" is a heavenly pop number that transcends its potshots at Vancouver (the band's hometown) eyesores to become a vivid capsule of a state of mind, and "Car Sold to a Boy" is a terrific bit of propulsive rock. Occasionally Stand Up for Your Mother slips on its own cleverness, and songs like "Television" and "Silent Film Star" fail to attain the sophisticated vulnerability of the terrific "Better" and the final, brief acoustic number "Bobby Baby." For pop fans looking for a new crush, though, Young and Sexy is made to order. --Shawn Conner
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