Add Date: January 11
Artist: Modern Skirts
Album: Gramahawk
Label: Self-released
Genre: Rock, alt-pop
Comments: Gramahawk, the third LP from Modern Skirts, finds the Athens, Ga., quartet continuing to break out of the mold of an indie/power pop band. Drawing comparisons to Sloan and The Shins, among others, for their first two LPs--and landing a spot opening for R.E.M. in Europe--Modern Skirts didn't like the direction that they were heading in (or at least the ease with which critics pigeonholed their music). So in a change of direction, Gramahawk veers toward the skewed-pop direction of Menomena or Aqueduct. There are some misses along the way, but a fair number of hits as well. Unfortunately, two of the best songs on the LP ("Bumper Car" and "Happy 81") are radio-unfriendly, but check out "Tape Deck" or "To Be a Branch Davidian."
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