Wheat - Wheat

The debut album by Boston's Wheat lacks the soft, psychedelic shimmer that producer Dave Fridmann gave to their follow-up, Hope And Adams; it's not quite lo-fi (although there's a strange humming noise continuing throughout the otherwise voice-and-acoustic guitar "Soft Polluted Blacks" that doesn't entirely sound like it was supposed to be there). These are skeletal but entirely satisfying nuggets of softly-sung, roughly-played, indie pop, triangulated somewhere between The Shins, The Pernice Brothers, and The Mountain Goats. Read More