This has really crept out and I wouldn't have known about it if it hadn't been our great friends at Add To Wantlist. I adored last year's The Shining, so much so that it hit our Best 100 Albums Of 2024. You can read my review here.
As I mentioned then, for a band with such a Pop Punk reputation, they have certainly branched out into outstanding Guitar Pop, Indie Rock if you like. If you thought The Shining was great (and it really was a popular Review) then this is its equal or probably better.
Slightly UK New Wave with footprints in Indie and even Power Pop, Prairie Vida is laced with Riffs and melody, you are just smitten throughout. The vocals of Chris Mott and Daun Fields resonate, both separately and together.
Fields's sweet vocal tempers things beautifully and slow things down beautifully, whilst Mott's vocal handles the faster driven offerings. Added to the twin Guitar attack, you have an album of extraordinary quality.
When the quartet let loose on Ray of Light and Wild Horses another dimension is opened. Saints, sang by Fields, is Indie Rock with a memorable chorus. There's even a closer that mixes Americana and Melodic Rock with a Dylanesque opening verse and a killer Guitar solo.
There is also another point to make. Albums of this nature are usually less of a concentration on lyrics, but here these 10 songs are stories, the songwriting is top notch and that can get hidden in all the instrumental joy. This album will certainly feature heavily in our Best 100 of 2025.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl and as a download.
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