a) the chalets album is not only an absolute classic but a big, immediate, obvious one. I'm convinced there's like, a cilantro gene that makes people not hear this
b) the reason I bring this up is that september girls (their third-I-think incarnation, after talula does the hula, which was straight-ahead indie pop and *actually* hit or miss) has a new album. while their old stuff has generally been too lo-fi for my taste this one is very good! as if they decided "David Boring" was the best Chalets song. "John of Gods" gives me Throwing Muses-circa-The Real Ramona vibes which is not the reaction I expected at all
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 8 April 2016 21:43 (ten years ago)