My Top 1000 Songs #776: Dream Date
[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]
As anyone who checks out my periodic run through new releases knows, one of my favorite trends of recent years is the number of current bands drinking deep from the well of the 80s/90s New Zealand Flying Nun records scene. Lots of slightly-skewed post-punk noise pop reminiscent of The Clean and The Bats, with a few strains of adjacent jangle pop acts ranging from The Feelies to early Teenage Fanclub.
One of the first, and most geographically authentic, were The Salad Boys, hailing from Christchurch, New Zealand (apparently the Bats' home as well). Their 2015 Metalmania (not a metal record!) was terrific, particularly "Dream Date"--which one can either view as one of the most on-the-nose tributes to the Flying Nun days of yore, or a bold announcement of the arrival of a whole new generation of musicians who know how to walk the line between buoyant fizz and pleasant jangle. Either way, for all my efforts to limit the frequency of songs from the past decade on the list, this was one that stabbed directly into my sweet spot on first listen and continues to delight me.Live studio session:
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