Paste Pick: The Chicago band’s second album evokes the a nostalgic ache of a childhood bicycle, the escapist vision of a hot-air balloon, a classical piano, a string quartet, and the heart-tugging ruckus of a sweaty indie-rock quartet screaming their heads off.
In a recent episode of SubwayTakes, The Strokes frontman described what he believes to be a gap between real and perceived oppression affecting the group.
The Sunflower Bean frontwoman talks going solo, making “easy listening” music, doing the arduous work of self-excavation, and finally seeing through the illusion of cool.