The Helio Sequence
Love and Distance
(Subpop)
Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel, the meticulously rockin’ duo known as The Helio Sequence, have donned their lab coats and released one of the most scientifically tight and poppy albums of the year. Fans of hook-laden rock will be hooked on Love and Distance, as the pair successfully blends harmonica and electonica, old-school and new-school rock, and straight-up verse-chorus-verse compositions with what can only be described as keyboard riffs that could’ve come out of your Nintendo.
The album’s standout track, “Everyone Knows Everyone,” could (in an ideal world) be the sing-along single of the summer. Well, it is in my car, at least.
Oh, and this should move some additional units: Weikel is the drummer on Modest Mouse’s currently-blowing-up album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News. And he toured with them, too.
Posted by colrus at July 5, 2004 04:41 PM | TrackBack