All the 2012 mp3s we didn’t get out to you before the end of the year. Enjoy!
Beach Fossils – Careless
Dent May – 2099
Mount Moriah – Younger Days
Blackfeet Braves – Vicious Cycle
Dog Bite – Forever, Until
Glossary – Keep It Coming
Little Children – Hollow
The Longwalls – Kowloon
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DRGN KING – 96 Tears
Shimmering Stars – I’m Gonna Try
Beach Fossils – Adversity
Times New Viking – Try Harder
Let’s Wrestle – In Dreams Part II
Portugal. The Man – Sleep Forever / Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now)
I don’t know what it is about all these sun-drenched bands lately (Tennis, Seapony, etc.), but I’m loving them. Beach Fossils is no exception with their waves-ready EP What a Pleasure. Maybe it’s because I’m in Wisconsin and there is snow in the forecast despite it being the end of March and albums like this remind me that things like sunshine and warm breezes and water in its liquid phase exist.
Cascading drum fills and dreamy guitars on “Moments” entice me to wade in, and by the end of “What a Pleasure” I’ve been pulled under. Top down, wind in my hair, and Wayfarers, please – sooner rather than later.
Wild Nothing‘s Jack Tatum lends himself to “Out In the Way”, and the entire album has a touch of 80s-by-way-of-Less Than Zero sadness about it. It’s part of what makes What a Pleasure so appealing to my Midwestern heart – emotional stoicism and long gray days will forever keep me with one foot rooted, never quite able to skip off into the carefree sunset that most beach records conjure up. Beach Fossils, though, I can fully get behind. I’ll do it again. I’ll fall right in.
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What a Pleasure dropped 03.08.11.
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