Marcy Playground - Shapeshifter

Marcy Playground – Shapeshifter

1999 Capitol Records

5 Stars

Marcy Playground continued there trippy heavily acoustic sound on Shapeshifter but had little success outside of the hit It’s Saturday. The album is still a wonderful ride. Only two singles were released from this album It’s Saturday and Bye Bye and an in an interesting twist the band included the videos for four songs on the enhanced CD. All three singles from the Marcy Playground album Sex and Candy, Sherry Frasier, and Saint Joe on the School Bus and something quite odd the video for the wonderful song Comin’ Up From Behind which is at present only available on the Cruel Intentions Soundtrack and was not included as a regular song on this album.

This album is full of great songs that just as the previous album unfortunately suffered from their Alice in Wonderland-esque trippy lyrics. If anything Marcy Playground provide fun songs that tell great stories. If you are buying your music digitally don’t miss out on It’s Saturday, Bye Bye, Secret Squirrel, Wave Motion Gun, and Sunday Mail but you might want to get the entire album its well worth it.

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