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...story begins in 2000 with the breakup of psych-pop revivalists The Olivia Tremor Control, who, throughout the 90s, had—along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel—served as a pillar of the Elephant Six Recording Co., a sprawling collective of indie rock bands based in Athens, Ga. With two of that decade’s finest albums—1996’s “Dusk at Cubist Castle” and 1999’s “Black Foliage”—under their belt, co-songwriters...
...acquired a devoted and loving fan base. He was brought to a wider audience in North America by his work on the “Dan in Real Life” soundtrack, released in 2007. Throughout his career, the singer-songwriter has dabbled in jazz, orchestral sounds, straight-up rock, or wherever his fancy took him. His sixth studio album presents a mature artist that has found and settled comfortably into his own layered pop sound. Now able to draw from experience, Lerche takes the elements that worked best from his previous albums and brings them together; the record blends...
...Fields circa “Wayward Bus.” Lush pockets of jangle-pop slowly expand and burst, growing fuller with each verse, culminating in a heavenly guitar solo. “Nothing to Hide” is more ragged but still impeccable. Drawing on the raw, garage-rock sensibility of “Fuckbook” (the March LP of their alter-egos, Condo Fucks), the band refines the genre with more polished harmonies, precise rhythms, and bright, crisp organ.The album’s centerpiece comes, fittingly, at song 6 of 12 tracks. “If It?...
Admit it. The first time you got accosted by a swarm of fifty tourists in the yard, you felt like a rock star...
Admit it. The first time you got accosted by a swarm of fifty tourists in the yard, you felt like a rock star...