The Green Man takeover is over. Track Of The Day is back to it’s old tricks, syphoning new music and spitting it onto our front page. Today; Seattle’s most raucous purveyor of pop, Telekinesis.
My first dose of Telekinesis was today’s ‘Track of The Day’, and the opening 10 seconds threw me into repelled doldrums. Wispy, blase Thrills-like wittering over some flat acoustic guitar that sounds like the whole thing is being put together by three Jack Johnsons on a beach drinking tropical punch, extolling the virtues of lo-fi and reflecting on season fucking 4 of The O.C. Then the cymbals peeter out, the guitar halts and in one swooping transcendental instance the song flips on its head in a percussion temper tantrum, thus becoming an inspiring explosion of indie twee-pop guided by the passionate vocals of Michael Lerner. Witness this flip via download below. Yes that is free download. No streams today!
DOWNLOAD: ‘Coast Of Carolina’ (right-click ‘save as’)
The sound of Telekinesis is that of one man, the aforementioned Michael Lerner, projecting his writing through a full band. The fruit of which is ‘Telekinesis!’ the album, a collection of 3 minute topping pop nuggets, all aided and abetted by Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla. Look out for the review in the next Clash Magazine.
