Moonlight Bride: Twin Lakes

That's indie: Resigned autumnal sadness.

This Chattanooga noise-pop band wasted no time in bumming me out by ripping off Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” right off the bat in “Diego,” which leads off this EP.

Their expressed deal is noise-pop, which had me expecting something a bit more creative than what’s here; add to that the fact I think I read some scuttlebutt about their 2009 album being more experimental and such and it really was surprising hearing such straightforwardness, a slab of buzzkilling grunge-pop with half-asleep vocals. One positive is the edgy, desperate feel of some of the open-chord riffing, which makes it more “alternative” than most of the music tagged as such these days; there’s a resigned autumnal sadness to the My Bloody Valentine-ish “Lemonade” that generates immediate rapport with the listener on a human level;

It’s too bad the epic fail of “Diego” wasn’t pushed way back in the track order (or left off altogether), but that’s indie for you.

By Eric Saeger

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