Chicklet
Wanderlust (Satellite)
by Dave Liljengren
From the first glance at the cover of Wanderlust, it seemed obvious that the Toronto pop twosome Chicklet were hiding something. I initially thought they were simply teasing the audience with the striking good looks of lead singer/multi-instrumentalist, Julie Park, whose face and shapely legs are blurred on the disc’s outer paperwork. On first listen, however, the band’s dirty little secret burbled to the fore: They have an undeniable fondness for seventies Canuck folkie, Gordon Lightfoot. The verses to “Out of Sight,” a rockin’ ditty well attuned to Wanderlust‘s theme of travel, is a late-millenial homage to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Mr. Lightfoot’s ’70s chart-topping dirge for all who go down to the Great Lakes in ships. Beyond that, Chicklet may be the fizziest champagne cocktail currently served by the maple leaf pop underground.
(920 E. Colorado Blvd #151 Pasadena, CA 91106)