Track Marks: How Thrushes Became This Week’s Biggest Band In The World
Welcome to another edition of Track Marks, in which your Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest band burning up the MP3-blogger charts.
Artist: Thrushes Hometown: Baltimore Album: Sun Come Undone First blog mention: A December 15 mention on Instrumental Analysis. The Build-Up: Posts on Milk Milk Lemonade and Covert Curiosity were it, until… The Dam-Break: … this week, when the blogs went nuts for Thrushes’ shoegazer-in-a-prom-dress track “Heartbeats.” It was posted on Coast Is Clear, Largehearted Boy, Veritas Lux Mea, and So … Where Is Helsinki? on Saturday; Here Comes The Flood, INDIEBLOGHEAVEN, Obscure Sound, and The Muso were among the blogs that followed suit, while Cable And Tweed decided to post “Aidan Quinn” instead. Odds of Backlash: 5-1. Anyone who has fond memories of 4AD will be all over this. Are They Worthy?: Yes. “Heartbeats” is simple and stunning, and their credo, according to their MySpace page: “Rock music should be beautiful.” Who can argue with that? They might want to call Phil Spector something other than their “patron saint,” though.
Thrushes – Heartbeats [MP3, link expired]
Thrushes – Aidan Quinn [MP3, link expired]
Thrushes [MySpace]
