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Itʼs the return of the magnificent Pearlfishers. After a long hiatus - seven years since their last album "Up With The Larks" (2007) - the band from Glasgow is finally back with a brand new album, their seventh for Marina Records. "Open Up Your Colouring Book" turned out rather epic - in scope and content - and it was well worth the wait. Welcome to a musical journey over 16 tracks and 67 minutes - brimful with sophisticated arrangements, multi-layered vocal harmonies and extravagant key changes. Itʼs proof that classic pop songwriting is alive and well in 2014. The album kickstarts with lovely "Diamanda." "Itʼs a beautiful day, so get out of bed…" Perfectly building a bridge between the classic hook-laden Pearlfishers pop songs from their earlier albums to the slightly more reflective tunes of the new album, it bristles with chiming electric guitars and stacked vocal counterpoint. Hey, Roger McGuinn. The trip continues with "To The Northland" - full of acoustic guitars, timpani and a full-blown string section. The song recalls main Pearlfisher David Scottʼs days in the early 1980s and the social and political turmoil of that time. Itʼs one of the many songs on the album that takes escape and flight as a central theme. "The Last Days Of September" leaves the frosty streets and empty cafes of a dying town behind on a Midlake meets Mamas & Papas choir. "Gone In The Winter" moves in the opposite direction, "over the deep south" on the trail of disappeared music icon Bobbie Gentry to an epic finale recalling Dennis Wilsonʼs "Pacific Ocean Blue". The title track is a trip on its own - a widescreen landscape of musical sections and emotions, extremely rich in detail, showcasing David Scottʼs truly unique sense of melody, songwriting and arrangement. "Have you ever seen a morning out on the West Coast / In Skye or Californ-eye-ay?" Technicolor, baby! Continuing a good old Pearlfishers tradition, the album includes a quirky instrumental. "Attacked By Mountain Cats" sounds like a lost Morricone theme from a late 60s Italian movie, including some mad whistling. The multi-stacked vocals and sacred beauty of Silly Bird recall the Beach Boysʼ Friends period. "The seaweed and the starlight / And all the funny creatures in between…" David Scott never stopped writing songs over the last seven years. They just didnʼt turn into a full Pearlfishers album. Among others, he worked with the likes of BMX Bandits, Isobel Campbell, Norman Blake and Bill Wells. "Open Up Your Colouring Book" includes two of those collaborations - both with New York City-based songwriters. "Chasing All The Good Days Down" was written with Amy Allison (with whom Scott released the album "Turn Like The World Does", 2012). The stunning heartbreak ballad "I Donʼt Want To Know About It" is a co-write with Erin Moran aka A Girl Called Eddy. "You Canʼt Escape The Way You Feel" sounds like a straight 70s AM radio smash à la Todd Rundgren - with superb falsetto vocals and a great horn-driven outro. "Iʼm still gonna get you back, girl!" Two piano-based tunes close the album: The Jimmy Webb-ish "Her Heart Moves Like The Sea Moves" and "A Christmas Tree In A Hurricane" - played on a deeply reverbed Wurlitzer piano - bring the journey to a great emotional finale.