Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
The glam-garage teenagers that are Smith Westerns have grown up a lot in the last year, and this album is proof. I'm sure the Chicaho-bred miscreants are still pissing is garbage cans behind venues and fingering young fans on the reg, but their music has improved an obscene amount between last year's eponymous debut and this very assured sophmore release.
The fuzzy, sometimes just flat-out bad production values of yesteryear are gone, and this new record is crisp, clean and completely intelligible. The guitar lines are locked-in and catchy, the vocals are pleasant a heartfelt (who knew Cullen Omori could actually sing?) and the songs are so damn catchy you feel like you won't want to listen to anything else for the next month.
For once I'll keep this review short and say just download this, it's a great collection of sweet, teenage tunes to end the year on.
Merry Christmas, folks.
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