new song: arches - wide awake

This new batch of Arches songs are so good, man. I know last time all I really had to say about them was that they sounded like Real Estate and that that was alright with me. But listen to this, dude, they're doing some next-level shit on their new self-titled tape. There is nothing less than the Great Bored Angelic Choir hovering over "Wide Awake," held down to the cruel Earth by the skittering uncertainties of the percussion. For some weird reason it reminds me of Wilco--like, YHF Wilco. I dunno man, it's too hot today.





Stream that song and the rest of the tape at the Arches Bandcamp, buy the tape from the homies at the Curatorial Club.

new music: Arches

So I've come back from the nation's biggest intercollegiate debate tournament in beautiful Berkeley, CA. Our status as debate terrorists continues to get bigger, as our completely nonsensical, intentionally rabble-rousing, and totally awesome argument took down some big fish and crushed some little nerds' dreams of going to the Tournament of Champions. Which is all you can really hope for.

Right: music.

Okay--just let me stop you right there. I know, this band sounds just like Real Estate and I know, they're also from New Jersey. But back when I was a kid, being associated with your scene's best and highest-profile band was a good thing.



Enter the Garden State's Arches, who you could think of as a vague halfway point between Real Estate and SF's Young Prisms, taking elegant, lazily tropical guitar-pop and giving it a more minimalist garage slant. If you're still reading by now, you already love this band, so here's the three mp3's I was able to get a hold of.

mp3-> Arches - Fallen Leaves [Demo]

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mp3-> Arches - Comin Back Again [Demo]

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mp3-> Arches - Another Fading Memory [Demo]

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