Sometime in October last year, San Diego's
Christmas Island released
Blackout Summer, thier debut LP. A few weeks before, they released a two-track long single. This is worth noting because
Blackout Summer is b-grade lo-fi indie at best, but that first 7"? It's solid gold.
"Nineteen" and "Twenty Nine" play-off each other incredibly well. One covers the frustrations of being young, dumb, and bored, while the other looks back and falls in love (I'll let you figure out which is which). The songs are tight, Beatlesque, garage-pop and the total listening experience (clocking in at just over six minutes) will have you bobbing yr head, tapping yr toes, and maybe, just maybe, whistling the melodies once they're stuck in your head.
Technically this isn't an album, and this release is from '09, but it's Friday and this record deserves to be shared, so...
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Nineteen - Christmas Island
Twenty Nine - Christmas Island
