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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Pizza Party: First Base 7"s, tapes, Romance Novels represses....
« on: June 02, 2009, 03:34:19 PM »
http://www.examiner.com/x-930-LA-Vinyl-Records-Examiner~y2009m6d1-Delicious-minimalist-pop-from-Canadas-First-Base
The days of simple four-track analog recording may be fading into obscurity, but that doesn't mean old-fashioned homegrown music can't exist in today's digital world.
Witness Toronto, Canada's First Base, a simple and heartfelt new pop combo that has just released its debut seven-inch on Pizza Party Records. Sounding like a band that could very well have been comfortably included on a volume of 1960's garage compilation series Back From The Grave, First Base is a breath of minty-fresh air in a world of over polished, overproduced, over-intellectualized indie rock.
The two songs, "I Got A Girl," b/w "Nobody Makes My Girl Cry But Me" remind one of the plaintive, pimple-fuelled outcries of a '60s teen band like The Alarm Clocks, only with more sexually suggestive lyrics. Just when I start thinking the youth of today hold no hope for the future, a band like this comes along and blows me out of the water. With the A-side clocking in at 1:44 and by B-side at 1:28, there's not a moment of wasted space. The simplicity of the old is mixed with the jaded awareness of the new -- aided by toy keyboards and listless-yet-wrenching vocals -- to create something distinctly new, fresh and original.
The days of simple four-track analog recording may be fading into obscurity, but that doesn't mean old-fashioned homegrown music can't exist in today's digital world.
Witness Toronto, Canada's First Base, a simple and heartfelt new pop combo that has just released its debut seven-inch on Pizza Party Records. Sounding like a band that could very well have been comfortably included on a volume of 1960's garage compilation series Back From The Grave, First Base is a breath of minty-fresh air in a world of over polished, overproduced, over-intellectualized indie rock.
The two songs, "I Got A Girl," b/w "Nobody Makes My Girl Cry But Me" remind one of the plaintive, pimple-fuelled outcries of a '60s teen band like The Alarm Clocks, only with more sexually suggestive lyrics. Just when I start thinking the youth of today hold no hope for the future, a band like this comes along and blows me out of the water. With the A-side clocking in at 1:44 and by B-side at 1:28, there's not a moment of wasted space. The simplicity of the old is mixed with the jaded awareness of the new -- aided by toy keyboards and listless-yet-wrenching vocals -- to create something distinctly new, fresh and original.
