Flower Girls Named When I Lose cassette
You have to love a singular vision, and this one brings a crunchy, syrupy, bedroom-made batch of covers and originals from GOD’S COUNTRY drummer Andres Wade. His vocals hit a perfect disaffected tone, slightly under the note and with a hint of theater that updates DEAD KENNEDYS’ “Religious Vomit” for the generation who watched Sopranos DVDs on their laptop. The rest of the album is equally referential and irreverent, with great pulls like DANIEL JOHNSTON’s “Casper” and even a fairly straight take on WAX’s “California,” another DVD classic thanks to the Spike Jonze set everyone seemed to have in college at one time. There’s something so lunkheadedly sweet about these performances, which do hit a perfect bedroom pop equilibrium (especially in the originals). The sound references grungy ’90s alt rock, SoCal punk, and power pop, and presents it all straight from the heart with a wink. Impossible not to love.