Col. Knowledge and the Lickety-Splits hail from Athens, GA, and as far as I know, do not live in a psychedelic Day-Glo treehouse and show cartoons to the neighborhood kids all day long (though if they could, I bet they’d do it in a heartbeat). They do, however, sling button-bright jangle-pop that sits comfortably between the charming downtown eccentricities of NRBQ and the more polished rock of hipsters-with-a-heart-on-their-sleeves like Fountains of Wayne. There’s plenty of material on Fall in Love All Over Again to get the girls to kick off their sandals and dance the Pony at your next backyard barbecue – the Farfisa-driven “Someday There Will Come a Time” and “I Just Want Somebody (To Get With)", and the countryish twang behind “Babysitter” are good candidates – and for those flying solo, “Water In Your Eyes” is a bittersweet summer bummer tune that compares favorably to Big Star. There just aren’t enough bands that sound perfect while the sun slowly sets into a pool of reds and oranges and the scents of sizzling burgers and Coppertone curl lazily around your nostrils, so it’s good to know that the Col. and Co. have answered the nation’s call.

Band web site: www.colknowledge.com
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– Paul Gaita