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Great Indie Pop

Patrick | Tri-Cities, WA USA | 01/05/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a great indie pop album by an up and coming Olympia band, and their first release on K Records. The music is upbeat and interesting, and makes use of a wide variety of instruments, giving the music an interesting overall feel to it. The production is low-budget, but not super simple, nor lo-fi per se. The music is soft, but upbeat. The vocals are a blend of both male and female, which I've always personally found to be very enjoyable. There are guitars in the music, but they never dominate, and are blended among the keyboards, horns and other sounds, all of which tend to be played fairly softly.



I think of this band as a good example of the latest of what's happening in the northwest indie scene. There are elements of twee in this, but with more complex instrumentation and arrangements than what's typically associated with "twee pop". You can tell there's a strong desire by the musicians to simply make great pop music, without really worrying about what genre or movement it can be classified as. And at that, I've think they've definitely succeeded. (Although be prepared for a very "indie" level of production quality.)"