The version of "Good Time To Tell Me" on the disc is quite a change from that on the cassette. It's slower. The bass and drums in the original song are gone, and the combination of voice and a single guitar give it an almost garagey feel. But it's not exactly that, either. You can hear room noise and movement in the background. It's as if Carla Gillis is sitting in your room just hanging out, and suddenly decides to take out her guitar and play for you, or herself, or someone, or whatever.

The songs, all recorded within the span of a week-and-a-half last summer, reflect the thoughts and wishes and events of a teenager's world, and can make even the old and tired feel young and energetic again. Songs like "Phil Was Always Here" add to the fun, with simple lyrics: a few lines repeated over and over again to a fast-moving, catchy tune . It's like when I was a little sprite, I liked certain songs but only knew one verse, so I kept singing it over and over with more emotion and enthusiasm each time I repeated it. It's young and silly, but somehow it's okay.

And it's easy to relate to "Only In The Movies" which, by the way, is one of my favourite songs on the album. Most of us can recall being afraid to sleep at night without a night light. Or we'd insist on having the door open with the hall light on for fear of the boogey man under our bed or in our closet, or the other things that go bump in the night.

You can really see how they're trying to shed their cutesy image in the new, harder take of "In the Sink," until the high-pitched backup vocals come in. They might not be able to shake that image, at least for a while, but then again, it works, so why kill a good thing?