'Another year's gone by. Hell, I'm still alive...'!
Hey, I love the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, Pavement, Silver Jews, Bill Callahan, Dean Wareham, Parquet Courts, Nap Eyes and that whole wonderful indie sensibility of underachieving, laconic, stumbling American alternative Rock and Roll. So clearly do Detroit's Bonny Doon, (not to be confused with the tiny town in the wine growing region of California from which they take their name ), whose self-titled debut album, just out, almost embodies the combined sensibilities of the artists just mentioned. Virtually every song sounds like a late contestant for the Juno soundtrack. Perhaps the fact that it doesn't break a single rule laid down by its forbears or really carry it into anything even approaching fresh territory should really mark it out for reproach even in it's mildest form but I simply don't have the heart, because they play the part so well and someone somewhere will be surely be chancing upon this record as we speak and it may well be their first entree to that whole delicious feast. Tuck in, whoever you are!
(The one song I've found a link to, posted above, was initially released on a 2014 EP, which I think is the version you get above, but also features on the current album).
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