Bare Wires - Seeking Love LP (Castle Face, 2010) Oh here comes the glam fuckin rawk! So sweet, like mother's milk. Maybe not the top album of the year but the title and opening track amount to the best kicking off I've heard and the quality sticks for all 23 & change minutes. As much as I liked the White Fence album, I have to admit that Seeking Love is the kind of thing I was hoping from them after first hearing those first couple of preview tracks back when (unfair comparison, but I shared it with you because we're pals). Oh man, this one track “Family Heat” has a great guitar solo… *drifts off* … anyway. This album has immediate love on lockdown and while I'm hoping for staying power, I know that I like it a lot right now so... I'm happy. BUY or taste a couple of tracks over at the ever loveable Raven Sings the Blues and here's the Official Bare Wires video for I (heart) You Tonite:VA - Welcome Home_ Diggin' The Universe (A Woodsist Compilation) (Woodsist, 2010) Y'know, after falling absolutely head over heels in love with Moon Duo because of Escape I would have expected a good friend to let me know about this Woodsist comp that kinda passed over (under?) my radar, but no, I had to find out about Moon Duo covering Errol Dunkley (reggae maker of note) all by myself. These imaginary friends must think I’m a jerk. P.S. this is my diplomatic way of saying that the Moon Duo track is the saving grace here despite my liking a bunch of the bands. *sadface* BUY IT HERE
Electric Bunnies – Pretty Joanna 7” (Sacred Bones, 2010) Pretty Joanna is a loud anthemic rock track that’ll play well while you’re cleaning a garage somewhere or training for a fight (trust me on this). The B-side is upbeat, tone-deaf and retro, somewhere between a mid 90s MTV sketch comedy show theme song and another more annoying thing. Buy it if you hate me and never want to listen to good music. JK!
Super Wild Horses – Fifteen LP (Hozac, 2010) I want to like Super Wild Horses, and part of me does, but the other part of me says they compare unfavorably to the fucking Dum Dum Girls ARGH, isn’t that just so cliché? Anyway, they do. Upbeat girl rock with a modicum of vocal fuzz (just enough to give ya a little “how do ya do!” and no more), it is. If you like the DDG’s and want more, but with a little bit of Go-Betweens jangle thrown in buy Fifteen (I do, or at least thought I did).
Panda Bear – Tomboy 7” (Paw Tracks, 2010) s’good. It’s going to be tough to impress people after Person Pitch, but I’m very digging the emphasis on pairing things down here to just rhythm, melody, and vocals, then layering a bit. I’m really looking forward to a whole album of this stuff.
Five is enough! Thanks to PartyBus @ the CBox for letting me listen to some of this.
