Never Felt Bitter

From the album review in Under the Radar:

“Came Back Kicking” sounds directly inspired by a range of influences from Tokyo Police Club to Material Issue’s “Valerie Loves Me,” reminiscent of classic sounding guitar hooks.

Beneath the restless melodies, there is also an underlying deep lyrical hurt, the group mediate on anxiety, regret, and resolve through fragmented memories coming to light. The cows falling through the fault line in “Ocean Swimming,” John Wayne hiding in the bushes above the 110 freeway in “Convent Walls,” The Mötley Crüe mirror in “Tough Love.”

The best way to describe Never Felt Bitter would be as a record that could only have been written by a group of friends first, and a band second. Rarely does an album sound so strongly like a group of musicians all pulling together in the same direction.