King of Prussia – Save the Scene
This music drifts from the distorted acoustic songwriting of Lou Barlow on one side and a slightly fuzzy take on West Coast pop on the other. At one minute you hear the Beatles and the other Pavement.
It’s one of those albums I suppose I’ll never be falling all over myself to push on people, but it’s solid and it all works really well. There’s nothing ostentatious going on, just good solid songwriting about the sort of topics that lift a record above the average ‘baby I luv u’ nonsense you hear all day on the radio. It’s a grower too, for sure, but not in a difficult way. More in the manner that it goes quite quickly from ‘oh that’s decent’ to ‘oh that’s really very good indeed’ over the course of a good handful of listens.
The wistful pianos of Physics Never Stood a Chance beautifully compliments the toe-tappingly insistent rhythm and slightly mucky guitar riffs of Beatlesy opener Spain in the Summertime. It’s small, this, but perfectly formed. Not a rush out to the shops right away job, but truly worth investing in should you have a spare eight dollars. It may sound straightforward enough, but there’s enough pain in the voice, enough fuzz in the guitars and enough motion in the rhythm to make this a really good record.
King of Prussia – Misadventures of the Campaign Kids
King of Prussia – Terrarium
