The sensitive pop sounds like Jellyfish, the trippy orchestrated rock sounds like Earth 18, and they incorporate Beatles and Nirvana cohesively like Birdbrain.
There’s a raft of B-sides, EP-only tracks, and previously unreleased numbers from their Dial-A-Song archives. That’s seventy-two itty-bitty tunes in all.
One of the buried roots of raw American rock, and the story behind the band itself is a tale so wonderfully anomalous it could only happen in rock ‘n’ roll.
This is the kind of stuff that pop pranksters like Ween could never quite pull off – pretty melodies slicking up the chute for a deviant lyrical attack.
Retreat From the Sun is full of happy and sad pop songs about waiting for phone calls, crying, kissing, pinching cheeks, and carving initials in trees.