“If you’ve never heard music before, you’ve never heard nothing like us” says Andrew Toups of Lafayette, LA pop outfit Brass Bed. Truer words were never spoken. Drawing influences from Television, Big Star, Dukes of the Stratosphere and 60’s pop revivalist acts like the Louisiana rooted Elephant Six Collective, Brass Bed’s Melt White takes on the shape of an album by a very accomplished act. It's difficult to accept that this is the band's first official release, but that's what it is. Drifting effortlessly between abstract noise, swirling guitars and skillfully crafted pop tones, the sound is equal parts classic and modern, ballsy & still sweet? Isn't that the code these days? From this wealth of musical wisdom comes their new LP Melt White, presenting 11 sonic adventures. Recorded in Austin, TX with Danny Reisch at Cacophony Recorders and Good Danny's studios, this album presents the potent live Brass Bed sound on tracks like "Pop Mission" and "Begs Me Not To Beg" and studio playfulness of their early home recordings on "Aria" and "God Save The Thieves". If crafting an amazingly diverse and powerful rock record isn’t enough, the band is also touring the country in support of it, and widening their travels and tales with gems like the time Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) slapped Christiaan Madar (lead guitar/vocals) in a Dallas, TX bar after Madar said he was from Louisiana. No blood spilled, just awkward confusion as Brock was also very insistent that the slap be returned without explanation for his initial assault,

RIYL: Dr Dog, Television, Wilco, Pavement
TRY: #2, 5, 6, 7, 10

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