THE GOLDEN SEALS No-Hitter (Guerilla) Rating: NNN Rating: NNN
After hitting a home run with the Golden Seals’ debut, Storybook Endings, Ottawa pop whiz Dave Merritt follows it up with No-Hitter, a collection of new songs, unreleased tunes and bedroom scratchings. The offbeat charm of Storybook Endings remains, as Merritt and his revolving cast of players wind their way through smarter-than-average soft pop, matching subtle hooks with clever turns of phrase. The different recording situations lead to an inevitable unevenness, but for a set of apparent outtakes No-Hitter holds together remarkably well.
