Blog: Powerpopaholic: The Power Pop Music Review Site!

Seattle's Gavin Guss is pop veteran who's played with Nada Surf, Jon Auer, Harvey Danger, Fountains of Wayne and his own band The Tycoons. Important to note, Gavin was also lead singer/songwriter with the short lived group Tubetop who produced a pure pop masterpiece in Three Minute Hercules . Given these facts you know what to expect and he really delivers with his solo album Mercury Mine . Starting with the gentle acoustic hook in "X" it leads to a glorious McCartney-like chorus, that builds to sticky goodness in the multi-track harmonic [...]