· jclacking · details

Pom Pom Squad :: Death of a Cheerleader

City Slang • released 2021-06-25

A solid debut album, with a wide range of energies and emotions, filled with swirling guitars, moments of unabashed vulnerability, and sheer screeching unhinged psychopathy.

A solid debut album, with a wide range of energies and emotions,  filled with swirling guitars, moments of unabashed vulnerability, and sheer screeching unhinged psychopathy.
Archives

Approximately Relevant

View Archives »
Snail Mail :: Lush

Snail Mail :: Lush

Bold effort from this young musician, this set of introspective songs shows great skill and promise.

Ratboys :: Happy Birthday, Ratboy

Ratboys :: Happy Birthday, Ratboy

Revisiting songs from their debut 2011 EP and various favorites from a ten-year career, this sunny folk-pop ensemble is buoyed by brightly colored harmony balloons dangling deathly sharp unexpected hooks. Listen with care and often.

The Bobby Lees :: Skin Suit

The Bobby Lees :: Skin Suit

The insurance inspector shook her head. She’d never seen a fire consume a structure so quickly and completely; this must be some new form of accelerant. Most curiously, the inferno seemed to have started at the stereo speakers.

Tennis :: Swimmer

Tennis :: Swimmer

Intricate blue-eyed soul arrangements and a heavenly female pop singer intersect into something decidedly sturdy and magnetic.