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The Quiet Americans
“Selia”
This track is so cool. I imagine this is the music you hear when the girl of your dreams walks through the door for the first time. That mix of exhilaration in seeing the beauty of your future and the pinch of anxiety knowing you have to go make it happen.
Go listen to the rest of the Medicine EP at bandcamp.
The Quiet Americans is an interesting choice of names for a group so steeped in British psychedelia. But from the first warped chord of “Be Alone” to the last bit of static on “Weird Mountain”, these Yanks from Fresno, CA stake their own claim. The six tracks on…
The Quiet Americans - Be Alone
This family band from Fresno, California write incredibly catchy psych-influenced garage rock. Band leader Luke Giffen is something of a Vince Noir - he works by day at the local zoo to support his family - and lays down sweet jams on his 8-track by night with his brother-in-law Eli Reyes and little brother Ross Giffen. Not sure if he can speak to animals, but my bet is he speaks to the pop gods on the reg.
Pick up their Medicine EP on Bndcmp free, and get the ltd. cassette for $5 bones more. On Tumblr here.