Pitchfork

After releasing their first seven-inch on Iron Compass Records (which includes a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' classic "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"), Boston's Certainly, Sir is prepared to release their full-length debut. Mugic, which hits the stands in February of 2002, consists of 11 brand-new, non-seven-inch tracks, and will be released by London's Spoilt Records, assuming no irritable mad cow gets his hooves on it first.

The two-piece, Casio-oriented conglomerate consists of Michael Brodeur (of Massachusetts' now-defunct the Wicked Farleys) and Klaus Hubben (bassist of emo-darlings the Ivory Coast). The new album was recorded in Hubben's Boston bedroom over the last two years, and rests someplace between a stripped-down version of the Farleys' regular output and a not-quite-as-funky-or-fully-orchestrated version of the Incredible Moses Leroy's 2001 release Electric Pocket Radio. The harmonies (and there are lots of them) are even, dare I say, sugary-sweet at times. And to think they actually want to be called Sir.

Tracklist:
01 Sweet Time
02 Hello
03 My Bad
04 Mercury
05 Hawaii
06 How You Been?
07 The Script
08 Th' Night
09 Wrong Song
10 F for Cake
11 The Vacant Lot of My Heart