11/04/2008

Loxsly

Flashlights

(self-released)

 

www.loxsly.com

 

 

These post-Spoon Austin indie-rockers ease into their four-song followup to Maps and Organs with a spacey little ballad that feels something written in the middle of a Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin bender, with bandleader Cody Ground's vocals cracking right where Wayne Coyne's vocals would have cracked. But as the EP moves along, they make their way through Zombiesque piano pop riding what sounds like a Casio beat, a mid-tempo power-pop song with unusual-for-power-pop instrumentation (including a banjo and church organ) and a closing track that sails off to the Virgin Isles with a crate full of late-‘60s Beach Boys on vinyl.

 

The mood is pretty constant, though -- subdued and eerie, just the thing for Ground to wrap that aching voice of his around in moments as inspired as "The sand on the Virgin Isles looks soft like snow. There's glass shards in it."

 

Standout tracks: "Lamprey Eels," "Virgin Isles." A. WATT

 


Browse / View All
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Recent Reviews
Limbo, Panto by Wild Beasts
01/08/2009
Badlands [reissue] by Bill Chinnock
01/08/2009
Cover Story by Anavan
01/08/2009
24 Hours by Tom Jones
01/08/2009
At the Cat’s Cradle, 1992 by Ween
01/07/2009
Canopy Glow by Anathallo
01/07/2009
Drinking In the Moonlight by New Radiant Storm King
01/07/2009
Flower of Evil by Susanna
01/06/2009
Homesick by Tractor Kings
01/06/2009
A.M. by Magnetic Morning
01/06/2009
Collector's Edition by War
01/06/2009
Strange Symmetry by Past Lives
01/05/2009
Waylon Forever by Waylon Jennings
01/05/2009
Amorine Queen by 18th Dye
01/05/2009
Haymaker! by Gourds
01/05/2009
Ana HIna by Natacha Atlas & the Nazeeka Ensemble
01/02/2009
Yes No Yes No Yes by Girls
01/02/2009
Place & Time by Rockwells
01/02/2009
Liejacker by Thea Gilmore
01/02/2009