so, as i mentioned before, this band is taking my life from me. i think i may have found this decades 30 degrees everywhere.
i mean, they are much less obscure than the milwalkee based quartet was in 1996, and everyone is in love with this album, but that's because it's actually very good.
with a sting-esque vocal quality and wisps of reggae, indie rock, motown, and op-ivy style punk (ala A-Punk), it can make the saddest man loving life once again. i know this first hand.
this bright, poppy album has more charm in it than should be allowed by FCC laws, but it's not just surface, it's not just fun, and although the smiles are genuine, they have substance and meaning.
much like TPR, they constantly throw specifics out to make up a completely abstract piece of art, like a mosaic or realistic paintings and photos creating a large shapeless paint blob atop a sketch of pointless images. the words are often about geography, cape cod, new york, and in general, back yards and city scapes.
the first thing i said when i heard this band was "wow, an indie band with a lead singer that can actually sing!" and boy, can he sing. sting meets crooner, exra koenig swoons and evokes over raucous drums, mandolin-esque guitars, hopping bass, and rostam batmanglij's incredible multi-instrumentalization (ie - organ, chamberlin, harpsichord, and percussion).
beautiful. just what i needed. just what you need.
best tracks- 1, 4, 7, 10, and 11.
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