Songs From Disko Bay

Inner Banks, The
Dag! Records
General | Sep 2009

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2009-10-29
Female vocal’ed compositions, lush pop slant but with very good guitar effects/treatments and arrangements (strings, flugel horn type stuff), but certainly not to fall into the the precious “chamber pop” realm. Well played guitars, lots of piano in front, pretty girl vocals just very slightly breathy, and in places dissonance and strangeness, just a dash for spice. Just really good, if pleasant and pleasing, songs. “Songs”: remember those? Cue up the first few seconds, give a listen and pick any really.

1) bent intro with female pretty vocals but bent tones, then lets go into a “normal” pop feeling song with piano in front, then at least a one min outro of the same bent twisted tones, cool!
2) pleasant mid paced with arrangements (strings, flugel)
3) simpler, mid paced, nothing dissonant, everything pretty
4) somber pretty, mostly just just guitar and voice and very tasteful effects/treatments for first 4 minutes then drums enter and it resolves
5) something epic about this, just good
6) simple feel despite how lush it is, arpeggio guitar and simple piano chords and strings
7) Instrumental, soundtracky, different korg/harpsichord tone in the melody, lush arrangements, careful: ends with a good 10 seconds left of mostly silence
8) heres more of the bent dissonance I mentioned, a slower almost ambient instrumental, cool if brief

Recent airplay

Lemon Tree
Songs about MusicJan 14, 2010
Lemon Tree
Palo Alto Pop OverthrowDec 10, 2009
Lemon Tree
lost and foundDec 05, 2009
Lemon Tree
Hipster GarbageNov 27, 2009
Darling
Brownian MotionNov 25, 2009
Tournament Of Wives
Total Pops Madness (sub)Nov 11, 2009

Charting

2009-11-08 — 2010-01-10
Week EndingAirplays
Dec 13 1
Dec 6 1
Nov 29 2
Nov 15 1

Track listing

1. Lemon Tree
2. Pyramids
3. Come Back
4. Darling
5. Tournament Of Wives
6. Big Bang
7. Blame
8. Coda (Lemon Tree)