We’re obviously biased about the Boston Music Scene on the regular but, really, it’s the MA music scene as a whole that gives us all the warm and fuzzies on the regular. And it’s artists like Somerville’s Tequila Sirens who not only embody that statement with the kind of unique and nuanced music they deliver but also make it that much harder to whittle down a manageable end of the year list because of, yep, the unique and nuanced music they deliver. But we’ll gladly complain on that end because it just compels us to listen to new album Impostors over and over and over one more time just to figure out where to place it (And because it’s that good).
If recent single “Orcas” was your first taste of Tequila Sirens then you’re in for a helluva trip from the minds and musicianship of bassist Whit Love, drummer Matt Masuzzo, Dwight Hutchenson on guitar and vocals, and Shaun Curran handling keys and vocals. The expansiveness of “The Eaves” arrives next and is positively percussive, punctuated by Masuzzo’s robust rumbles as Curran’s keys create an airiness over Hutchenson’s soaring melodies before the noiseniks’ paradise of “On My Rays” kicks in filled with a kind of conflicted bout of wondrous whimsy thanks in part to Curran’s lush delivery which touches on feelings “of frustration and the struggle to be heard” according to Curran in the press release.
“Scenery Chewers” is a mad carnival ride with Curran adopting a Greg Dulli-like cadence while “Dark Trapper” is anything but “dark” carrying a shiny happy disposition despite the dense subject matter. “Snow Falls’ puts listeners up front at a show at the Roadhouse with Curran inhabiting the Julee Cruise role as Hutchenson’s glistening strums serendipitously sparkle. “Imposters” is a big, bad title track that’s like Girls Against Boys mixing it up with The Gutter Twins, “I Don’t Understand” rises up into modern Dream Pop territory with “Stray” coming off as a fairly straightforward Rawk jam propelled forward by Love’s electric bass work. Lastly, “Max Cherry” is a trip! We meany trippy and similar to what we imagine drifting in a raft lost at sea as you hallucinate land on the horizon with an imaginary friend that takes the form of Coconut Pete over Jimmy Buffet providing the soundtrack would be like.
Imposters is out on June 6th and you can get yourself on the right side of history today when you head here for all the links you need to find your copy the moment it arrives in cyberspace. For more from Tequila Sirens, including all the info on their record release show the evening of (That’s June 6th if you forgot) at The Lilypad with Hidden Fountain and the one and only Cameron Keiber (Still celebrating the release of his Nurser record), hit the trail of socials by heading here or here.