Here are three songs I'm playing and liking a lot lately:
"19-20-20” by The Grates (pictured!) – I have no idea what this song is about, but Aussie lead singer Patience Hodgson grrs, growls and bounces around on this pop-punch rockalong that defies you not to dance. Hodgson rhymes ‘tigers’ with ‘liar’ and you don’t even care, you sort of nod your head and think yeah, that makes sense.
“Islands on the Coast” by Band of Horses – It might take you a few listens before you start to dig BOH, but that’s only because you’re retarded. These guys are a consistent, reliable source of heavy melodies and beautiful, grandiose progressions that will dip you deep in introspective thought and conjure the images of your ghostly ex-girlfriends. Creepy crawlie.
“Waiting for October” by Polaris – Polaris is the band that played a ton of the music for the Nickelodeon show “The Adventures of Pete & Pete.” Mark Mulchay surges and cracks on “Waiting for October”, waxing prophetic about the end of the world while riding the haunted riffs of a ‘90s indie gem, the proof that Polaris is a band that is as much a band as it is a feeling and a memory of things you used to be and things you used to do. If that sounds confusing it’s because it is.
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