Alvvays - Adult Diversion

If I should fall
Act as though it never happened
I will retreat
And sit inside so very quietly

When I first heard Toronto-based Alvvays, it was their dreamy, shoegaze cut "Archie, Marry Me", and I quite liked it. Three years later I still listen to their self-titled debut album fairly often as it fills a slot in my rotation. A jangly, dreamy, happy spot. Cleary I don't get enough of that. Ha. Here's to hoping for some new stuff from them at some point.

RIYL: Neko Case, Best Coast, Honeyblood, Courtney Barnett

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Teen Girl Scientist Monthly - Blood On Yr Sundress

Where you going?
There's blood on your sundress
Tanned boys all staring at your necklace
Sunburnt eyes shaking off a reckless bore
Tanned boys all running in the car park
Breaking windows and tell you 'bout new start
Tell you 'bout a new taste
Come and put your fresh face forward

Here's one for your Saturday strolling - or at least for ours! Highs in the mid-80s and I'm going to be exploring Central Park for my first time ever in not-winter, I'm ready to rock! I dug this up looking for lesser-known bands out of NY to celebrate our weekend: a 6-piece rock group from Brooklyn, self-described as sounding "like Ra Ra Riot and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah making out in the bathroom." Here we gooooo!

RIYL: Sleater-Kinny, Charley Bliss, Los Campesinos!

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We Were Glue - Birthday

I could take you walking in the park
And you would tell me secrets in the dark
That suggest that you don't know me at all
And I just smile and nod away
It really doesn't matter what you say
I'm just glad I've got you here at all
I don't want to be another one of your guys
I just want to be your one guy

Fun find - this Liverpoolian quartet that (in their own words) "writes energetic, rousing guitar music about love and gives a shit about making people have a good time." The debut single from We Were Glue was just last fall! (Bonus: video for that tune included below. Clearly bad acting ftw.) Back to this song, it's their latest release and "about the tendency to have absolutely no idea what’s actually going on in a relationship: just doing anything to please the other person and hoping that you don’t fuck up." Haha. I picked it as a Most Important for it's title - despite the lyrics in regard to forgetting your SO's birthday - I'm actually in NYC this weekend to celebrate Keith's. I would never ever forget, babe -- you are my one guy! Let's go have some good times!!

RIYL: Two Door Cinema Club, Sundara Karma, The Strokes

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Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency

Unfulfillment is killing you
Seems like no one shares the same view
We may have never met but
It might be you who pulls me through

Formed in Seattle in 2001 and named after The Smith's song, Pretty Girls Make Graves was one of my local favorites when I lived there and I've missed them quite a bit since they broke up in 2007. The New Romance, the album from which today's Most Important comes, is a timeless classic and "This Is Our Emergency" is a song I come back to and rock often.

RIYL: Silversun Pickups, Cursive, Sleater-Kinney, The Murder City Devils

Nothing - Vertigo Flowers

Watch out for those
Who dare to say
That everything
Will be okay
Watch out for those
Who want to be
Anything at all

Old folks like me might call this kind of song "easy listening" but hipsters may file it under "shoegaze". Regardless "Vertigo Flowers" is a nice, mellow track that somehow manages to fit some pretty rocking riffs right into the middle of it. Like a nice little rock and roll hump for your hump day. If you enjoy this, check out their latest, Tired Of Tomorrow, for more of the same.

RIYL: Nada Surf, Sunny Day Real Estate, DIIV, Beach Slang

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