The summery album art seems like a good fit for the happy and lo-fi indie pop. The casually sung vocals and cheesy Casio keyboard background beats might deter some people, but they compliment each other nicely. They sound a little bit like the Magnetic Fields and Jens Lekman.
February 4, 2008
Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams (2008)
The summery album art seems like a good fit for the happy and lo-fi indie pop. The casually sung vocals and cheesy Casio keyboard background beats might deter some people, but they compliment each other nicely. They sound a little bit like the Magnetic Fields and Jens Lekman.
These guys are really awesome... very summery jammy jam, as Larson would say.
ReplyDelete"About To Walk" is my front-runner. I really like the way the line "I was just about to walk five miles in a day" is sung for some reason. I put this one up on my muxtape... http://nightrain.muxtape.com/
So, songs on this album keep jumping out and grabbing me.
ReplyDeleteMost recently, "Take It Or Leave It." I think your "casually sung vocals" comment is spot on, and that aspect is certainly one of their distinctively attractive attributes.
The specific lyric that I'm digging right now is: “Now I sit here graceless, and watch the coffee cup regret that I poured this.”