Showing posts with label What Is There To Smile About. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What Is There To Smile About. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Close Lobsters - New York City In Space (video)

The overwhelmingly underrated and criminally underheard Close Lobsters, are back with a brand new single! New York City In Space trembles with familiarity, as the Lobsters reintroduce us to their warm hypnotic guitar layerings. It's a sleepy, dream-like single that unwinds behind Andrew Burnett's echoing Scotish drawl. It could easily be a restored lost cut from Headache Rhetoric, their last LP. Even if you never got into the whole C86 thing, or ever even heard What Is There To Smile About, you may find something pleasing in this tune. For fans of Galaxie 500, Felt, or any recent Captured Tracks singees:

Friday, March 8, 2013

Close Lobsters - What Is There To Smile About?

Scottish C86'ers, Close Lobsters have remained largely unknown for what seems like eons. This summer they'll join other post-punk, twee, and jangle-pop connoisseurs like The Bats, and The Monochrome Set at New York's Popfest. Despite their often avante-garde guitar structures, the band is really a pop powerhouse; which can be noted with their first album Foxheads Stalk This Land. (Their second effort Headache Rhetoric is nothing to snub your nose at either!) Take a listen to their 88' single What Is There To Smile About? I'd say there really is nothing to smile about this time of year, except perhaps this song and its fun lovin video, featured on MTV!