Dearly Beloved You Are The Jaguar. Release Date : July 20, 2006. Label: Kindling Music. Rating: Good. (Screw points. To each his own!) Sure, I dig it, this is fun. It's a bit dull (I mean, the sound quality, not the actual music), which I will take as a deliberate attempt to sound analog/old-school. For some reason I have a bit of a problem with bands that do that if they have a musical sound that is decidedly modern. If it's modern music, it should be slick. If it's oldschool tunes, then go analog all you want. I guess some of the songs sound like vintage punk, but there's a little too much melody and prettiness for that to pull off properly. Girls lightly intersperse music that I feel wants to be more vicious than it is. As the disc goes on, I find I am more and more fond of the lightly quirky sounds - definitely a 'hip' album without being so annoyingly derivative like a lot of the same ilk. A lot of said ilk are still pretty fun but it's getting hard to tell some of these bands apart sometimes. Song of choice : "The Butler Routine" is a unique one - very cute and stand-out, suiting the analog quality much better. "Perils of Snap Decisions" is also pretty cool sounding. -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere Dearly Beloved website Published : January, 2007.