A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
Just randomly stumbled across Sweetness, the second release from Girlpuppy (the project of Atlanta singer/songwriter Becca Harvey). It's got the vibe of other low-key indie projects like Boygenius and Soccer Mommy, but Harvey brings on some studio heavies to give it some guitar muscle, occasionally veering out of comfortable bedroom indie pop into thrashy shoegaze. A pretty perfect balance is struck on songs like "I Just Do," a relaxed little home-brewed pop tune with an electronic beat that builds into anthemic 90s alt.rock. "Champ" similarly rides a louder shoegaze crescendo. But there are also some gentler ballads here, like the twangy Americana-tinged "Beaches." It sounds like the sort of record I would like to imagine is popular on mainstream alternative rock radio, if such a thing still exists, but figure I'm just being idealistic.
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