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Saturday Looks Good to Me

From their name alone, you'd expect Saturday Looks Good to Me to be the next in a long list of midtempo, easygoing, indie pop acts, possibly with a slight emo edge. But with the wispy vocals, bouncy guitar, and lazy brass introduction to All Your Summer Songs, you soon realize that this is a different beast entirely. "Meet Me By The Water" invites us to dance along the river's edge, and to bring a record player and our Raincoats 45's.

The sweetly innocent songs extend a hand and invite listeners to take a walk down memory lane, ambling down roads paved with the rose-colored nostalgia, remembering the sounds of Phil Spector and the like, blooming with layers and reverb galore. Saturday Looks Good to Me employs a revolving cast of musicians, of which songwriter and producer Fred Thomas remains the core member, four-track mentality firmly in hand. And buried within lo-fi tambourine shakes and Motown sensibility, are three minute pop gems sung by the likes of guest vocalists like Ted Leo and Tara Jane O'Neil. Every Night and All Your Summer Songs are a lazy weekend dream filtered through easy grins, broken hearts, strolling lovers, swelling string sections and that classic pop song sound that can only be found in Oldies sections in record stores and Burt Bacharach singles. Morning, indeed, always comes too soon.

Saturday Looks Good to Me - Ambulance
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Meet Me By The Water
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Keep Walking

Official Saturday Looks Good to Me. Buy Every Night from Polyvinyl Records, iTunes Music Store, Amazon

Posted by Queen of the Front Row at 03.08.05 at 12:51 PM

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Thanks Queen O.T.F.R.,
What a blitzkrieg of great music!! From the Thermals to Crooked Fingers to now Saturday Looks Good to Me. Mighty fine indeed. Thank you for shining a well-deserved spotlight on some certainly deserving artists. See ya' in the front row . . .

Posted by: Vegamatic at 03.08.05 at 9:01 PM

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