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A lush five-piece featuring co-ed co-lead vocals, young and sexy serves up elaborate and intimate pop that might have you thinking of Guided by Voices, Fleetwood Mac, and the Carpenters, but maybe thatâs just us. The highly opinionated Robert Dayton of Canned Hamm says, ãyoung and sexy are one of those musical groups on the cusp. Theyâre ready to break out of their cocoon and become a big beautiful butterfly with their mellow folk pop sounds... and blushing mannerisms.ä Whatever! We just like the album! Recorded at ÷ where else? ÷ the JC/DC rock factory.<p>With little fanfare and even less commercial notice, Vancouver, British Columbia, emerged as the pop music scene du jour in the earliest years of the 21st century. From Destroyer's Thief to the New Pornographers' Mass Romantic  and really almost anything else issued under the local Mint Records imprint, for that matter  no other North American city released more truly great records pound for pound during the same time frame. Add Young and Sexy's debut to the above list. Between frontman Paul Hixon Pittman's adenoidal vocals, witheringly cynical lyrics, and gorgeously Beatlesque harmonies, Stand up for Your Mother could well be a Destroyer record, and that's high praise indeed. With Lucy Brain's winsome harmonies gilding the lily, these 12 songs are simultaneously beautiful and tough as nails  and, given contemporary tastes, no doubt much too smart for their own good.  Jason Ankeny
All Music Guide
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Canada
Mint Records
MRD-058
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