Voiceboys : Voiceboys   

Six talented young Swedish men bring us an exuberant, fun CD of well-chosen classic top-40 US covers, startlingly arranged, with innovative, powerful vocal percussion. 13 songs: Prince's 'Kiss' and 'Sign of the Times' ben e. king's 'Stand By Me,' Seals & Crofts' 'Summer Breeze,' the BeeGees' 'Stayin' Alive,' Tom Jones' (and it totally sounds like him)'It's Not Unusual,' Carole King's 'You've Got a Friend,' Wilson Pickett's 'In The Midnight Hour,' our favorite song on the album,'Does Your Mother Know,' Sting's 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,' Smokey Robinson's 'My Girl,' 'Hooked on a Feeling' and 'The Great Pretender. There's nothing but Swedish on their website, (although the songs are in perfect English), and almost no info on the liner notes but 'Voiceboys' speaks for itself with the kind of vocal juice that made songs like 'Midnight Hour' and 'My Girl' instant classics when they first came out. These guys clearly loved this music when growing up, and love a cappella-the result is one of the best contemporary CDs we've heard this year!

Songlist: Kiss (Prince), Stand By Me (Elmo Glick, Ben E King), Summer Breeze (Dash Crofts, Jimmy Seals), Stayin' Alive (Barry, Robin, Maurice Gibb), It's Not Unusual (Gordon Mills, Les Reed), You're Got A Friend (Carole King), In the Midnight Hour (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett), Does Your Mother Know (Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeous), Sign of the Times (Prince), Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Sting), My Girl (William Smokey Robinson, Ronald White), Hooked On A Feeling (Mark James), The Great Pretender (Buck Ram)