The San Francisco indie-dream-pop-shoegaze band fronted by Glenn Donaldson release a new LP of jangling guitar and beautifully wistful songs, centred around small talk and everyday water cooler moments with an mischievous but heartfelt delivery and a finely tuned sense of pathos and irony. Their sound is influenced by the twang of The Byrds, some Hüsker Dü fuzz, The Chameleons, The Smiths and Television Personalities, and there’s a uniformity to style across the enjoyably jangly, witty 14 numbers, marked by wonderful titles such as opener The World Doesn’t Want Another Band, the Smiths-like bitchy I Only Ever Wanted To See You Fail, the beautiful guitar sound and melancholy of job and career drudgery on Slow Torture of An Hourly Wage, the dark humour of Your Cult Is On Fire, the meaty distorted guitar sound and biting wit of My Toxic Friend (“why does our friendship never end?”), to the sad power of Richard In The Age of the Corporation, or the quiet, acoustic closer There Must Be A Pill For This. Fragile, funny, fragrant and finely formed. Out on Fire Records.
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