The Smashing Times - Come Along With Me Ezra Collective "focusing on breaks

"focusing on breaks

much-travelled Mitski’s fifth album

with the band’s sphere of influence expanding to take in everything from Italo-disco to minimal techno

Sydney Chadwick (vocals) and Cameron Lowe (guitar) had previously played in punk pop band the Debauchees

The Smashing Times - Come Along With Me Ezra Collective "focusing on breaksWell knock me down with a feather. Here tis' in your lucky mitts lies the primordial cassette canoodlings that emanated up from some far flung Baltimore basement by those most surely now, near mythical, Smashing Times. Stately field recordings that seemingly straddle the void between a burgeoning subterranean folk rock renaissance, yet briefly encounter shimmering DIY jangle popisms of this old curmudgeon's youthquake, without a hint of revisionism