VINYL FORMAT. The Beach Boys are the obvious touchstone, but dig a bit deeper and you'll hear flourishes of Paul McCartney, The Byrds, Emitt Rhodes, ELO, and doo-wop. Embracing a pop blueprint from a time when great songs were played on the radio and everybody loved them all, The Explorers Club has recorded the sweetest pop record you're likely to hear this year. They're doing for summer beach song what Amy Winehouse has done for R&B or Sharon Jones for funk and soul; what Antibalas have done for Afro-beat.   [ read more ]

LP $12.99

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VINYL FORMAT. In the age of the MP3, "flavors of the month" circulate far faster than Baskin Robbins can rotate their cooler. It is refreshing, then, to hear something timeless every now and again, and the Explorers Club is just that. This is sunny psychedelic pop replete with lush arrangements and cushy four-part harmonies that harken back to a decade long ago, when kids turned on their FM radios to find the cool new thing. These boys are not indie-rockers thieving from the vaults of the classics; The Expl   [ read more ]

7" $5.95

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