"It’s just another thing you can’t outrun"
Another Way To Lose by L.A. based indie post punk band The Pretty Flowers feels a bit like if Built To Spill were younger and into indie rock bands like Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. All that might not make any sense to you except to say that for this kind of musical stuff there are some very heavy guitars passages that are both beautiful and destructive in a Doug Martsch sort of way (always a great thing). I do love the heavy contradictions here that pull away from the power pop, pop punk tones. I thought of Superchunk as well.
The Pretty Flowers are Noah Green (guitar / vocals), Sam Tiger (bass), Jake Gideon (guitar) and Sean Johnson (drums).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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The Pretty Flowers are an indie rock, punk band from Los Angeles whose members include: Noah Green (vocals/guitar), Jake Gideon (guitar), Sam Tiger (bass) and Sean Johnson (drums). Their first EP, My Alchemist, was released in 2015. Their 2018 debut LP, Why Trains Crash, was released on the Portland, OR label Dirt Cult Records in 2018. That was followed by the release of the covers album Golden Beat Sessions in 2019, as well as a West Coast tour. On July 31, 2020 they will release two new singles, "The Long Con" and "Another Way to Lose", recorded at Studio Red by Adam Lasus and mixed by Alex Newport.
Reviews:
Golden Beat Sessions album:
A remarkably well-executed covers record, and I should also say the selection of songs is almost too perfect...I'd be the first to say if these songs weren't given the proper reverence, and I'm happy to say The Pretty Flowers did it right. - Razorcake
Why Trains Crash album:
Imagine Posies power-pop melodies but played with the altrock Americana muscle of Buffalo Tom, the gritty punk of Forgetters, and, most oddly, the intelligence and adventurousness of Brit-poppers Pulp and you're there. - Scanner Zine
The Pretty Flowers are an indie-rocker’s indie-rockers. The L.A. quartet’s 2018 debut album “Why Trains Crash” proudly carries the torch lit by bands such as the Replacements, Pavement, Guided by Voices and Superchunk and handed off to others like the Thermals and Ted Leo. Which is to say that their biting, hooky songs are like panes of glass being broken by pearls of wisdom. - Buzzbands.LA
Why Trains Crash is almost a shoe in for album of the year. I've been playing this Pretty Flowers album kind of non-stop the last few weeks. This is that kind of band, the one where you hear their record and you just know you're probably going to be listening to it for the rest of your life. Go buy this now. - I Buy Way Too Many Records
Take some punky indie rock like Superchunk, give it big power pop hooks and guitar licks that whisper Thin Lizzy, have the singer be nasal and lyrical like a toned-down Weakerthans, make it wistful but not weak and catchy but not cute, make it twelve songs long and let it go forth into the world. - Razorcake
These Los Angeles hard power-poppers are off to an awfully good start. They play very--read VERY--'90s style indierock that harkens back to later Replacements, early Weezer, a little Sloan, and quite a bit of Wilco. They have the chops to write great songs. - The Big Takeover
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