Retrospects, The
Vaporwaves
Ian Manhire (White Wires, The Sedatives, Uranium Comeback, The New Calling) picks the perfect name for this new band, for several reasons, and delivers pure pop gold on this debut album by RETROSPECTS (with great artwork from Alien Snatch regulars Sam Torzina and A-Hule-Hule), the long player featuring a bag of nuggets polished into a palm full of cat's eyes, swirls, and steelies, all the tunes just chock full of charm, the click of marbles rattling in your pocket, humming with analog synthesizers and unapologetic honestythe narratives like scenes in a moviethe rhythms moving like the flickering of celluloid through a projectorwhen the spring comes, you kick the salted ice from the fendersrub the rust from the chromeFriday night slide off your sneakers and lace up the roller skates and hit the wooden floor at the local roller rinkin the kitchen Jiffy Pop shaking on the cast iron of the gas stovethe music casting a spell and keeping the promise from go to whoaa continuation of that unique Ottawa/Canadian sound (that I'd argue goes back 60 years, long before people even used words like power pop and punk rock to describe music).