Pomegranates

September 16, 2009

Pygmalion Festival is almost upon us and I’m busy catching up on all the bands in the line-up I haven’t heard.  Pomegranates is easily of the best ones I’ve found. First, you can’t go wrong with a fruit in your name (see Apples In Stereo, Moldy Peaches, Bananarama, etc). They also have some great, bouncy hooks going on in their music mixed with some shimmering psych-pop that puts them on the similar musical plane as the Elephant 6 bands. The Cincinatti-residing band put out an album earlier this year and have slowly but surely been making their presence known on various music blogs and on tour with kindred spirits of the indie pop scene like Headlights and Islands.

When you have a track as exuberantly titled as “Everybody, Come Outside!”, it pretty much demands listening and the band succeed in creating a song as refreshing as it’s title. The song seems to be custom-made for summer mixes from the boisterous tempo to the brit-pop like instrumentation of crunchy guitars and flourishing keys. ”Beachcomber” plays up the pysch-pop aspect of the band with washed out vocals over chiming guitar and shifting tempos, venturing towards an dreamy outro as the reverb-drenched guitars converge.

MP3 Everybody, Come Outside!
MP3 Beachcomber

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Posted by Taylor in Artist Spotlight