Teen Line - Collecting To Collect

This neat cas­sette out on Weath­er Vane Records by a group shar­ing mem­bers with Vin­tage Crop among oth­ers, im­me­di­ate­ly cap­ti­vates with an ab­solute­ly time­less make of el­e­gant and well-round­ed pow­er pop, sup­port­ed by way above-av­er­age song­writ­ing chops. Think of a cou­ple of more or less con­tem­po­rary groups like Bed Wet­tin' Bad Boys, Tom­my and the Com­mies, Bad Sports, The Wind-Ups, Datenight, Ex-Gold, Va­ca­tion, Mr. Teenage, Yups, Frozen Teens… pick your poi­son! Though the whole thing may be a bit too front-loaded with most of the hits re­sid­ing on side a, which leads to a bit of a slump in the sec­ond half… kin­da like like a me­an­der­ing Twin Peaks sea­son 2 it still man­ages to work it­self back up to a glo­ri­ous fi­nale in the clos­ing track Hold Mu­sic.