As their name confesses, this Missouri guitar pop act seem quite happy living in the past. Opener ‘Lie On You’ shows a decided liking for the harmonised pop of Weezer, while ‘Step Brother City’s jangly Strokes-y guitar bears out this theory. Meanwhile, ‘Foreign Future’ could be a Breeders out-take. And we should draw a veil over more blatant, though less hipster lifts from Nick Lowe and Manfred Mann.
Improbably, the band played in Moscow a mere three months after Yeltsin’s death, suggesting more enlightened times than the 1980s (or now come to that).
However, there’s plenty in these eleven, sub-three-minute pop gems to encourage your average indie music fan to break out the vodka and dance.
(This review originally appeared in the Burnley Express)
@isthismusic thanks! We played in Scotland a few years ago at The Captain’s Rest (RIP). The Cinematics were there, too.