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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Merge Records
A gorgeous, winsome ode to beta-male romance
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Back in the '90s, power-pop was almost anti-power. With choirboy vocal harmonies, skinny guitar melodies and big-sigh odes to unrequited crushes, groups like the Posies made a name for rock dudes who weren't afraid of cardigan sweaters.
Seattle's Michael Benjamin Lerner grew up listening to the Posies, and his debut sounds like a gorgeous tribute to that golden age of beta-male romance. Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla produced, recording and mixing each song on analogue tape in a single day, and the music feels feather-light. "Awkward Kisser" floats along through gauzy guitars and perky sock-hop pianos as Lerner gets nostalgic for "cherry blossoms and a cherry soda / picnics in the countryside." And "Imaginary Friend" is a shy head-bobber, with starch-crisp chords, a simple, learn-to-play drum beat and lyrics that could have been cribbed from someone's Hello Kitty diary: "When I was young I had imaginary friends / And boy did we have fun."
Lerner's not so emo that he ignores his ambitions; with hard-charging guitars that melt into a neon-bright sunrise of a chorus, "Tokyo" is a vivid rock-star fantasy conceived on a bullet train — the perfect daydream for a sensitive guy with enough stadium-rocking drive to become big in Japan.
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| 01. |  |
Rust |
2:06 |
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| 02. | |
Coast Of Carolina |
3:31 |
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| 03. | |
Tokyo |
2:53 |
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| 04. | |
Look To The East |
3:13 |
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| 05. | |
Awkward Kisser |
1:44 |
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| 06. | |
Foreign Room |
3:29 |
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| 07. | |
Great Lakes |
2:53 |
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| 08. | |
Imaginary Friend |
2:53 |
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| 09. | |
All Of A Sudden |
3:42 |
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| 10. | |
Calling All Doctors |
3:02 |
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| 11. | |
I Saw Lightning |
2:12 |
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11 Total Tracks, 31:38 Total Length
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