I love pop music. I especially love female-fronted pop music. When it’s got some kick and personality, it’s even better. This one’s got a little surf guitar action going here and there. This is going to be a little too pretty for some of you, but it’s right up my alley. Think of bands like the GO-GO’S, the EPOXIES and the BUSY SIGNALS. Twelve releases by these guys? Wow.
Solid Americana-infused street punk. Reminds me of AGAINST ME! and BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! mixed with the BRIEFS and ABRASIVE WHEELS. Like the aforementioned BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!, NORCOS Y HORCHATA stretches past the typical punk tropes and introduces longer, more experimental hooks and bridges laced with synthesizers and cherubic gang vocals. As always, I’m partial to any band drenched in Midwestern references, which we see in songs like “Lake Ave. Traffic” and “Carbondale”—the latter being a nod to growing up in a robust DIY scene, longing to return to that moment at an older age, and finding an entirely different scene later in life (at least that’s what I gathered). Maybe I’m projecting! Lovely work here.
