“Firing up the hook machine again.”
Plugging into the power pop grid: Space Jaguar broadens and refines jangly power pop with fuzzed out alt-country, heartbroken indie folk and a cover of one of the best songs of the 90s, while Mythical Motors collects nearly 20 years of precious lo-fi, jangly, fuzzy power-pop onto one essential compilation. Victims of the New Math maps jangle-pop's lo-fi road with melancholy introspection and 60s psychedelic pop perfectly addled by modernity, and Sorry Monks evoke the golden age of guitar-pop across 12 songs — think Mamas and Papas meets Between The Buttons era Stones — without ever veering into pastiche.