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No less a light than Ben Gibbard once pledged loyalty to Austin pop masters Silver Scooter, which should give you a decent indication of the group's tone and approach. Gentle, longing, guitar-based indie pop focused on splitting up and falling apart, Silver Scooter use a fairly conventional approach to turn out some unconventional pop. Simply put, the songs here are sterling — Scott Garrad's voice is tiny and retiring, and he knows how to instill simple phrases like "delivery driver" — which is repeated and repeated and repeated at one point — with the kind of significance that would make e.e. cummings rethink that whole "cellar door" assertion. These gentle shoulda-been classics tug at the heart as they stick in your head, shy valentines sung to darkened bedroom windows.
