Song of the Week: You Said It

I first encountered Beverly (not to be confused with The Beverleys) on this year's Austin 100 and was instantly enchanted by "Victoria", a powerpop revival gem that served as the lead single for their upcoming album. Last Friday, the band released their sophomore record, The Blue Swell, and my favorite from the collection of jangle-dreampop tracks was "You Said It" which perfectly unites Beach Boys surf cred, Pixies fuzz and Metric crooning to form an indie masterpiece of B-side proportions.

"You Said It" by Beverly

You can't unsay it,

Kelvin

Song of the Week: I Was Home

One of the songs featured on last week's KEXP Song of the Day podcast was "I Was Home" by Sunflower Bean. Starting out seemingly harmless, the call-and-response indie punk gave way to an intense garage-psychedelia and then back again. I replayed the song again before I checked out their debut album which was released this February, Human Ceremony, and then realized that I had heard one of their songs, "Space Exploration Disaster", a couple of weeks back on an All Songs episode. All I have to say is, eat your heart out Black Keys.

"I Was Home" by Sunflower Bean

I was home and then I wasn't,

Kelvin

Song of the Week: Body on the Tracks

Feeling some SXSW nostalgia, I went in search of performances of artists I admired who I wasn't able to catch during that week. In the process, I stumbled upon the video below of a Mississippi show by Deep Sea Diver, the solo project of Jessica Dobson who had worked with the likes of Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Shins. This track comes from their sophomore album Secrets, released earlier this year, whose songs brush the fringes of synthpop, shoegaze, progressive rock and post-punk revival in a way that doesn't delve headlong into any one of these genres but instead uses them as cardinal directions for a musical compass with its center in indie rock.

"Body on the Tracks" by Deep Sea Diver

I carry you from one day to the next,

Kelvin