A while back we featured a couple of songs from teen love (the bedroom pop project of Justin Burns), when he released odes to Audrey Horne and Dana Scully. Now teen love is back with an album called be kind to me, which Burns recorded in his bedroom/bathroom through the summer. What we get is eight cool lo-fi bedroom pop songs, some dreamy and hazy, others kind of rocky and messy (in a good way), all backed up with Burns’s deadpan vocals. Highlights include ‘bedroom blues’, with its underwater lo-fi ambient vibe almost reminiscent of the Twin Peaks theme, ‘how are ya’, in which muted electric guitars carve away at big smashing percussion, and ‘you are so cool’, which has these stormy squally guitars which whip around the vocals like ragged flags in a gale. In short it’s all pretty cool!
RIYL: bedroom pop, coma cinema, pet cemetery
Songs:
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You can get be kind to me now for as much as you like via the teen love bandcamp page. You should also probably know that I’m kind of late to the party on this, so much so that this project has been killed by it’s owner. Luckily for all of us, Burns has already started another project, named Happy To See You, which you can check out on Soundcloud.