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sábado, 12 de octubre de 2013
miércoles, 4 de abril de 2012
Tan Dollar: Diary of our journey to the Netherlands (2012)
"I wasn’t really familiar with Tan Dollar when I downloaded this EP. In fact, I don’t even really remember downloading it in the first place, but there it was in my recently added folder in iTunes. So I listened, and I liked. I like a lot, actually. So I reached out to the very friendly frontman Chris Thorne via Twitter and then later e-mail and he gave me the scoop on this dreamy pop band from Tustin, California.
For being a relatively young band, Tan Dollar has not only quite a few releases under their belt, but they’ve also undergone more lineup changes than most bands will see in their lifetime. Chris Thorne remains the band’s sole founding member and he is now joined by three of his friends for their latest EP Diary of Our Journey to the Netherlands. After going back and listening to a few of their older releases it seems like Tan Dollar has been steadily shedding layers with each release. And on this EP it seems like this new skin of theirs is the softest, and most healthy yet.
The three tracks on Diary find ground that is very welcome to my ears. They successfully and effortlessly straddle the ground between dream pop and 1980’s shoegaze and they do so with two different guitar effects. It’s a great mashup of sound and it creates these pop songs that sound relatively timeless. Chris told me that the band is hopefully gearing up for a 12” release later this year. So now that I’m a fervent fan I’m definitely going to tracking that one" (cactusmouth.tumblr.com)
For being a relatively young band, Tan Dollar has not only quite a few releases under their belt, but they’ve also undergone more lineup changes than most bands will see in their lifetime. Chris Thorne remains the band’s sole founding member and he is now joined by three of his friends for their latest EP Diary of Our Journey to the Netherlands. After going back and listening to a few of their older releases it seems like Tan Dollar has been steadily shedding layers with each release. And on this EP it seems like this new skin of theirs is the softest, and most healthy yet.
The three tracks on Diary find ground that is very welcome to my ears. They successfully and effortlessly straddle the ground between dream pop and 1980’s shoegaze and they do so with two different guitar effects. It’s a great mashup of sound and it creates these pop songs that sound relatively timeless. Chris told me that the band is hopefully gearing up for a 12” release later this year. So now that I’m a fervent fan I’m definitely going to tracking that one" (cactusmouth.tumblr.com)
viernes, 22 de julio de 2011
Tan Dollar: Untitiled (Single, 2011)
"Tan Dollar's charm lies in its rough, unhewn edges, lending their sound a youthfully reckless appeal. The band's Myspace lists influences including "The Smiths, Being Sad, Weed, and Complaining," so listeners will know what they're in for. "Untitled," off Tan Dollar's latest Cursed EP, seems like it might unravel at any moment. The vocals are insistently nasally and plaintively off-key, the rhythm lags, and it sounds like it was thrown together last minute. The brash lyrics are both frivolous and forlorn: "So what do I care/ if I saw you in your underwear?/ Oh, you could kill/ And we're all gonna die someday." It's that very haphazard, slapdash quality that makes the track so catchy and rakishly endearing. --Jasmine Zhu" (Vía: Altered Zones)
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