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Golden Smog: Clearly, it's "Another Fine Day"
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GoldenSmog
Listen. This is important.
It might sound like hype, but as hype nips at your ears every day from every corner, who gives a damn? You’re smart. Your BS detector is strong; take this missive with a grain of salt, but don’t talk yourself out of opening your ears to this mix-by-one-band-how-can-this-be-one-band? that fell from the skies of Puerto Santa Maria, Spain and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Start with Gary Louris and Kraig Jarret Johnson’s “You Make It Easy.” A breezy love song about breezy commitment. Listen. To that solo. To those harmonies. Dare yourself not to sing along. Try to play “name the influences” and you will have fun but you will fail. And "5-22-02", the first single from the album resonates strongly as a memorable, hook-laiden track, sung by Johnson with background vocal support from Louris, Murphy and Holly Marilyn.
Then check out “Hurricane,” and hear Dan...
