The last day of 2015. A final plug for a record put out this year. Though it's not an actual album, except in digital form. From a duo from Syracuse in New York State. Reminds me a little of things like Real Estate, Cloud Nothings and vocally there's some resemblance to Mercury Rev in that it sounds like the singer is in a jar. But the album has more than enough life and energy of its own to recommend it. It fairly buzzes along! Plus the whole of it, (Slugger by name), all ten songs, is less that twenty five minutes long which is a noble feat of pop concision in itself.
It's all very much a cottage industry. Go to their Facebook page and you'll find lead guy Lorenzo Gillis Cook packing and posting t-shirts and doing all he possibly can to offer interested parties free streams of the record. Good luck to them! Slugger is a joy. A small sea of invention. Sometimes happy. Sometimes sad. Sometimes introspective. Always inventive. Always moving somewhere new, lyrically and melodically. A gift that keeps giving! Just one song to link to here but there are a couple more on Spotify and the whole thing can be found here.
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