These kinds of power-pop bands usually shine brightest with short, sharp, verse-chorus-verse structures, but Bronco Bullfrog also had the audacity to channel Shazam-era Move on idea-loaded epics like "Poor Mrs. Witherspoon" and "Lazy Grey Afternoon" that are among the best tracks on their eponymous debut. Not that the short songs aren't fab too. It all froths with smooth harmonies, summery melodies, and chutzpah to spare.
Originally released on a 16-track CD in 1998, and a 10-track Spain-exclusive LP two years later, Bronco Bullfrog is now making its first full-length-plus appearance on wax courtesy of Spain's Guerssen Records. Along with the original 16 tracks, which have been rearranged in a more double-album-friendly order (each of the four miniature instrumentals scattered willy nilly throughout the original CD now begins each of the album's four sides), there's a bonus track, the laid back "Home to You", an outtake that appeared on a multi-artist compilation in '98.
The vinyl is flat, with a well-centered spindle hole. The music sounds organic and punchy. Lyrics and liner notes the three band members wrote in 2012 for unknown-to-me purposes appear in the gatefold of a release that retro-psych and power pop freaks will want to hunt down.
