We here at Citizen Dick World Enterprises like to stay ahead of the curve, or at least in pace with it. Sometimes, however, we miss a beat. We’ve taken one another to task for such ball droppage in the past and promise to continue doing so. While we cannot go back in time and fix such mistakes, we can reach back into the near past and drop a tasty nugget of tunage (apparently I’m channeling Phish today) for you to check out.
Such is the case with today’s singles club entry, “Truth Is” from The Sky Drops recent album, Bourgeois Beat. Hailing from Delaware, which itself is strange, since the sound has Los Angeles virtually encoded into it, The Sky Drops bring some of the freshest fuzzy psych-pop I’ve heard in quite some time, a sonic smoothie blended together with equal parts Film School, Neil Young, and Blinker the Star.
The duo that comprise The Sky Drops – guitarist Rob Montejo and drummer Monika Bullette – stick to classic shoegaze theory with Bourgeois Beat, keeping it simple and, in doing so, decisive and deliciously bad-ass. These guys aren’t jacking up their sound, adding unnecessary nuance. Instead, they are going to the roots of the genre, which isn’t much of a trek for Montejo, given his former membership in seminal shoegazer band, Smashing Orange. In other words, what you have here are a pair of musicians that know what they want to do and know how to do it, and aren’t gonna get all po-mo glitchy on your ass in order to score a critical point here or there. In other other words, check this shit out, pronto.
While you are at it, check out the video for “Truth Is” – it reminds me of something Godard’s grandson might’ve done after watching
The French Connection and jamming to “Sabotage” on his ipod, en route to the shoot.
