I cleaned my entire place this weekend and found a number of tasty morsels that we all may have missed in the last several months, while I was off sitting by the sea (above) or chillaxing at a movie in the park. Never fear, my pretties…let’s get started with Seabear and Walter Meego, and hit Imperial Teen and Orba Squara after the jump.
Seabear (lp)- The Ghost That Carried Us Away (Morr Music)
I like Seabear perfectly well, and I think that’s a pretty common assessment. Do I love this album? Nah, but I might take it out again and let it come upstairs. It’s well-crafted superpop, meaning there’s a lot of Sufjan-y tinkling over some la-di-da melodies and Seabear mastermind Sindri Mar Sigfusson’s ultra sleepy, ultimately soothing, almost monotone coo. Smart stuff from a 24-year-old Icelandic native.
Walter Meego (track) - “Through A Keyhole”
I first caught this Chicago duo at the Cultural Center downtown over a lazy lunch hour during the summer of 2006. It was part of a series of lunchtime shows leading up to the Pitchfork Music Festival that year, and these cats were by far the coolest of the noontime sets I saw. It’s electronic, dancey rock music at its most base, which is easy to digest in all its yumminess. Try to catch them out with VHS or Beta this fall.
Walter Meego - Through A Keyhole
Imperial Teen (lp) - The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band
Even with middle age approaching at unrelenting speed, the members of Imperial Teen have retained the power pop precociousness that defines their 90s altera crunch sound without sounding dated or desperate. The album title refers to the ways in which the four members have spent their time since 2002’s On, and there’s a palpable respect for the grace of growing up on this latest effort.
Orba Squara (track) - “Perfect Timing (This Morning)”
Orba Squara is the much fancier music moniker of one Mitch Davis, a seemingly quiet New Yorker who set out to make some childlike folk music in his bedroom and ended up penning the theme to the release of perhaps the most highly anticipated piece of personal technology in this young century. Davis’ “Perfect Timing (This Morning)” was the soundtrack to Apple’s introduction of the iPhone. The track is lovely in a fall Sunday morning kind of way, but the story here may be more interesting.
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