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Stumbling down memory lane
It’s been roughly two decades since the debut of Superchunk, Built to Spill, et al., but Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin nimbly carries their post-punk torch on their hook-laden third studio LP. Let It Sway is a feast of musical comfort food for the nostalgia-tripping slacker-chic children of the ’90s. Title track and lead single “Sink/Let It Sway” thrums and pops like vintage Guided By Voices, and “Banned (By the Man)” may as well be “Teenage FBI, Part 2,” including the muted guitar tones and pinched-throat vocals. The rest of the album slides downhill, a mix of inoffensive and unremarkable power-pop with the occasional slow jam to break the wistful monotony—the perfect soundtrack to cruising the streets of Seattle in your 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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Totally agree with your assessment. Pershing was one of my favorites for 2008 and I really wanted to like this one. It's just not sticking ...
I'm glad Someone Still Loves the '90s, and is unafraid to shoot for pop hooks instead of trying to please pretentious critics by producing unlistenable indie-rock noise.
Certain moments in the first 3 tracks even remind me of such radio-friendly rockers as Bryan Adams and Tom Cochrane. I don't mean this as an insult. (Well, Tom's pretty respectable anyway.)
Too bad most of the rest of the album lacks strong hooks.