August 2010
19 posts
Summer Twins
It can be said that everyone has a certain kind of music that they always like. My girlfriend for example nurses a bias for bearded singer songwriters who compose albums in secluded cabins, or raucous folk groups. For me it’s the kind of pop music that band’s like Riverside, CA’s Summer Twins make. Tightly arranged dream pop with just the correct amount of rock and roll.
The...
Track Talk: Young Prisms, “These...
theroadgoeseveron:
Seapony :: Dreaming
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Track Talk: Soars, “Throw Yourself...
The Widest Smiling Faces
Today my bro Daniel posted a review of a self-titled debut album by New York’s Aviv Cohn —aka The Widest Smiling Faces—up on a blog I contribute too called Fresh Heirs. I felt compelled to write and share something about this guy too.
Cohn’s equal parts Microphones and Mountain Goats influenced acoustic bedroom pop is as refreshing as it is delicately written. A certain...
Track Talk: Blackbird Blackbird,...
headunderwater:
Teen Daze - Wet Hair...
Laura Stevenson & The Cans
I have been cultivating a certain fantasy for quite a while now. In my dream scenario the hurricane that we now refer to as the “chillwave”-ahem-“movement” has withered and died. Or at the very least every blog in the known universe has moved on from the ambient haze and synth-y 80s soundtrack sound. Instead savvy internet listeners have shifted back to the once beloved...
headunderwater:
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
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Record Review: Magic Kids - Memphis (by Me, on... →
Track Talk: The Thermals, “There’s...
Welcome to the inaugural post of Cautious and...