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The Comas
The Comas make blissful, warm rock with a spacey feel that feels oh-so-comfortable. Their last album, A Def Needle in Tomorrow, was a grower, its clever little songs worming its way into my brain after repeated listens, insidiously catchy and I could not displace them no matter how hard I tried. Then, seemingly, the Comas disappeared off the face of the earth for a few years, only resurfacing in the last half of 2004 with a new album.
A certain unnamed music magazine hailed their hazy stoner pop as one of the best things you didn't hear all year; the press release also makes note of the fact that the album's lyrical material is drawn upon a breakup between the lead singer and a certain actress on a popular teen drama of the late 90s, which is more than enough to overshadow the subject here. The truth of the matter?
The Comas' last album, the swelling, magnificient Conductor, runs the gamut from delightfully fuzzed out pop anthems to droning guitar-filled songs to gentle, nuanced ballads, with a hint of country here and there. Despite the haze surrounding so many of their songs, listeners can still pick out the attention to little details, important when so much of the music depends on the dynamics within the tiny orchestra frontman Andy Herod has assembled. What makes the Comas so crushworthy is the male and female vocal interplay in their songs, which also happen to be filled to the brim with dreamworthy hooks and can't-get-it-out-of-my-head melodies.
The Comas - Tonight on the WB
The Comas - Falling
The Comas - The Science of Your Mind
The Comas - Last Transmission
The Comas official site. Buy Conductor from Yep Roc Records, Amazon, or iTunes Music Store.
Posted by Queen of the Front Row at 02.20.05 at 3:32 PM
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