What Do Shelves Sound Like?
1. If Teenage Fanclub played in Pavement to songs written by Weezer.
2. Ash with members of a very young Guided by Voices.
3. An un-American Superdrag.
4. Matthew Sweet who never went solo but somehow joined Spoon.
5. Stephen Duffy with a fascination for overdriven guitar amps.
6. Less radio-friendly, and even less macho Foo Fighters.
7. Big Star as a 90′s garage band but with lousier songs.
8. Every band on Naruto Season 1 soundtrack rolled into one.
9. Phantom Planet had the new millennium never happened.
10. Manic Street Preachers, if they were girls – and illiterate.
[...] provides an inkling of that strange paradox, something the band cheekily alludes to in one of their many attempts at describing their sound (consider, for instance, the clumsy but hilariously apt “If Teenage [...]
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March 14, 2012 at 2:43 am