Yellow #5 comes with quite a pedigree. The members of the band have played with or contributed to albums by *inhales* Mondo Generator, earthlings?, Mark Lanegan, Quens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Twilight Singers and Martina Topley-Baird *exhales*. Given these associations, one could be forgiven for making the assumption that Yellow #5would sound like one or more of the acts mentioned above. That assumption would be wrong. With the exception of the rocking ?Moon Man?, the band play smooth, dark, almost loungy (in a good way) pop. (?Pop? in the sense that the songs are accessible, not in the artificial, mass-produced sense.) The music is anchored by bassist/vocalist Molly McGuire?s husky, sultry voice ? she has one of those voices that turn otherwise sensible men into fawning saps ? and Dave Catching?s dead on guitar playing, it?s no accident that Catching ends up on just about every record made by the Palm Desert crew. 8/10 -- Neddal Ayad (16 June, 2005)