We featured the debut track from Tallahassee’s Naps back in August. ‘Jeans Skirt Mystique’ was a great little slice of bedroom indie rock, and it’s only fault was that it was just one track. Luckily, the band are back with a new single, ‘Floral Mattress’. Whereas ‘Jeans Skirt Mystique’ was fronted by Ryan Stanley, this time Katryn Macko takes over writing and singing duties, delivering a wonderful little lo-fi rock song which is shot through with sadness, think a noisier take on the formula used by Yours Are The Only Years.

The B-side is a cover of Tiger Trap’s ‘For Sure’ which was recorded during a live session for v89, a Florida radio station. Naps’ take on the track is pretty faithful to the original, but then, why would anyone want to alter the classic bold and brassy brand of indie pop?

You can get the single as a free download via the Naps Bandcamp page. I don’t think you’ll regret it.

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‘Jean Skirt Mystique’ is a nice little bedroom pop track which opens with a gentle, almost twee, account of a stale relationship. The lyrics, like all the best “bedroom-pop,” are full of Millennial angst, a sense of resignation and apathy, not only concerning the aforementioned relationship, but also pretty much everything else. Stanley sings:

“there’s nothing between us
there’s nothing anymore
there’s no god between us
there’s no god between us
there’s no god anymore”

The song shifts during the second half, where things are kicked into a second gear of ramshackle lo-fi indie rock. The whole thing clocks in at under three minutes, and certainly left me wanting more. I suppose I’ll just have to be patient.

Download the track for the princely sum of zero pounds/dollars over at the Naps Bandcamp page.

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