Los Angeles’ most promising nouveau-twee group Princeton are in the post-production stage of their album Cocoon of Love, which comes out shiny and new in a brilliant, overcast Bunnymen-esque sleeve this coming September. They’ve released a taster called “Calypso Gold.” It has a tasteful string arrangement and is produced nicely. I am hoping for genre-defining material from this group, but I’m wondering lately if that is possible 60 years into this whole rock and roll thing. But don’t mind me, I just have the post-post-post-new wave blues. Maybe I’ll post about that soon, if I can focus. In the meantime, this is a good track, so please enjoy.
Catbirdman is just now catching on to last summer’s Bloomsbury EP from Princeton, a threesome from Los Angeles. Before I get out my Norton Anthology of English Literature (each track is inspired by a member of London’s fabled Bloomsbury group, and hey, I’ve read “To The Lighthouse” more than once…), let me just share these tracks with you. They give me a similar pleasure that I found in Vampire Weekend last year, with more of a nod toward Stuart Murdoch’s record collection than the punk standards. This suits me just fine.