The Lilys' music will instantly remind you of a handful of classic organ- and guitar-heavy combos from the '60s, but they're wholly unlike any other retro outfit on earth. Theirs is an alternate vision of '60s psychedelia. Neither pretentious...more.
Thirty-six minutes of recombinant retro bliss, The 3 Way is a keen, direly enjoyable experiment. Replace the wide-eyed optimism of the Elephant Six clan with real and implied decadence, or add cojones to Belle and Sebastian's fey dandyism...more.
As a follow up to Better Can't Make Your Life Better - it seems like everyone, myself included, expected huge things from Kurt and Co. Unfortunately, they got an album that was a strong as its predecessors but quickly fell to...more.
A common complaint about the new crop of indie pop bands is that they aren't doing anything "new". A lot of people I know say, "Why don't I just listen to the Beatles?" and disregard the current generation as...more.
I don't mean that this album sounds like 'Better Can't Make Your Life Better'. I mean that I had a similar experience with this one. At first listen, a few songs grabbed me, but I wasn't overly impressed...more.