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Category: Music

Transatlantic Underground: Spring 2008

by Tom Lee

What can I say? Better late than never? I guess it's inevitable that as time progresses I'll have more commitments and less time to pontificate. I'm still doing what I can when possible though. So on to the music.

I'll begin halfway in Treble's home city. Pancakes for Penguin claim residence in Los Angeles and San Diego. They promise "more songs about animals" and deliver wonderful, scratchy lullaby indie. "Elephant Song" is twee as Beck doing the washing up. Vocals and home made orchestrations merge into a hazy marshmallow of sound. "Caution Wet Floors" brings to mind Elmo doing The Boy Least Likely To. It's like music from happy, newborn aliens. "My Little Pony" could be tacked on to Flaming Lips' Finally, the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid box set. You can't quite place the foreboding that lies somewhere beneath the cuddly veneer. The Missing Teeth are fully at home in SD, and responsible for a slightly more doom-laden indie pop. "Dictionary" is an "Atmosphere" pointing take on Rogue Wave that apparently concerns over familiarity with life and literature. "Waiting In Line" contains the creakiness of a Will Oldham demo, and somehow cribs a little of Cockney Rebel's character. There's a kind of audible half-raised eyebrow to the bands in this paragraph that really makes sense in the context of their hometown, perhaps the side of it which is actually superlative worthy.

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