Before you read the name of the next indie-pop sensations Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, hop aboard the Joseph McCarthy ignoramus bus and deem them pinkos, take a listen and you'll quickly discover that the Springfield, Mo., quartet make up a quintessentially American, guys-from-next-door sorta group; the kind of band that could compose the perfect soundtrack to John Cusack films circa '86; that could introduce each and every song with "This is a song about love"; that shops for collars and khakis at Aberzombie and Fitch.
Not too many indie-pop acts can claim victory in the battle of bland, but SSLYBY manage to overcome sugary sweet dullness with solid, irresistibly bouncy melodies and -- really -- massive testicular gravitas in an engagingly rocking live set.
Think The Shins and Vampire Weekend.
For all their sonic magnetism, I've got a non-musical quibble. Dudes: How about a shorter band name? Even SSLYBY ties the tongue.
Oh well. Check out "Oregon Girl":
May 20, 2008
Get smitten: Someone Still Loves You,
Boris Yeltsin
Before you read the name of the next indie-pop sensations Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, hop aboard the Joseph McCarthy ignoramus bus and deem them pinkos, take a listen and you'll quickly discover that the Springfield, Mo., quartet make up a quintessentially American, guys-from-next-door sorta group; the kind of band that could compose the perfect soundtrack to John Cusack films circa '86; that could introduce each and every song with "This is a song about love"; that shops for collars and khakis at Aberzombie and Fitch.
Not too many indie-pop acts can claim victory in the battle of bland, but SSLYBY manage to overcome sugary sweet dullness with solid, irresistibly bouncy melodies and -- really -- massive testicular gravitas in an engagingly rocking live set.
Think The Shins and Vampire Weekend.
For all their sonic magnetism, I've got a non-musical quibble. Dudes: How about a shorter band name? Even SSLYBY ties the tongue.
Oh well. Check out "Oregon Girl":
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