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.
I shared my love of Exploding Flowers' 2020 album Stumbling Blocks a few years back. They've returned with their latest slab of indie jangle, and it's another fine, varied collection of tunes. Lots of gentle jangle here, songs pulling from the R.E.M. and Feelies and Go-Betweens and Lilac Time songbooks, cross-fertilized with some more jarring post-punk indebted to the 80s/90s Flying Nun scene of bands like the Clean and the Bats, the treble-happy guitars broken up by some garage band keyboards.
Opener "Crowded Streets" sets the tone, sweet and jangly but amped up to a frenetic pace. Other stand-outs include "All In Stride," which manages to conjure both R.E.M. and George Harrison while sounding like a long-lost Paisley Underground track; the oh-so-80s-college-radio jangle pop of "(No Arms Around) The Isolationist"; and the melancholy Bats-like "Hungry Ghost."
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