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a friend gave me a burned CD of this band's album in 2005. i’ve been trying to remember the name of that band ever since. tried googling lyrics, vibes, even the design and color of the album artwork. nothing ever came up. this week i found the files sitting quietly on an old hard drive i thought was long dead.
20 years later. still hits.
Jun 3, 2025
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Oh my god this took me forever to remember! I love the 2000’s, especially because the period of time between digital releases becoming the standard and streaming meant that a lot of artists who couldn’t get major deals could pretty easily spread their music around. Unfortunately a lot of these artists are lost to the ether, mainly due to poor archiving, and this one is definitely lost to time.
If you like animal collective (especially around the the mid 2000’s before they got a little more refined and poppy) you will absolutely love this, a proper deluge of weirdly folky, psychedelic-y, at times fast and manic sounds.
If you like animal collective (especially around the the mid 2000’s before they got a little more refined and poppy) you will absolutely love this, a proper deluge of weirdly folky, psychedelic-y, at times fast and manic sounds.
Mar 30, 2025
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Lost band from Brooklyn sometime in the mid-2000s. Kinda folk, kinda punk, but not folk-punk if that makes sense. Forgot about them until I found an old iPod Touch a few months ago.
Jun 14, 2024
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For me, the 80s began musically when this little-band-that-could from Athens GA dropped their understated debut in 1983.
Imagine how crazy this sounded amidst the backdrop of Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Springssteen’s tidal wave of MTV hits:
1. Indecipherable vocals and lyrics that appeared only to describe the waking dream, if anything at all
2. No guitar solos of any kind. Just arpeggiated jangle - like the best Byrds you’ve ever heard
3. “Lead bass” and a second lead vocalist who also wrote half the songs. Mike Mills was their secret weapon.
They were “college rock” before it existed.
The template for indie.
Weird art kids and record collector nerds who started miles from the mainstream and retired three decades later as the biggest, most influential band in rock. Walked away. No regrets. No dumb reunion cash ins. No bad albums they’d later regret.
They remain my heroes and any interest I ever had in playing rock music is because of them.
“I can hear you/can you hear meeeeee?” 💙
Jun 30, 2025
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