New Town Dream: Baby Blue Vinyl LP
LPSLR283XLabel: Slumberland Records
Release Date: 14th June
Despite coming straight outta the Bay Area Slumberland Records and their acts, who tend to be from from the same area are still making the most British indie music today. Neutrals may be the most British yet as they sing about new town of the 70s and 80s, sing propulsive jangly punk about Kebab shops and pubs. All the while they sound like early Jam meets The Television Personalities.
Neutrals are a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, channeling a wide range of '70s and '80s punk, post-punk, and DIY indiepop influences - Their spare, angular songs don't skimp on melody or intimate storytelling and represent an appropriate intervention in these tense, atomized times - Their debut album "Kebab Disco" came out in 2019 on Emotional Response Records and garnered universal acclaim as "an excellent collection of terse melodies, unique storytelling, and scraping pop
(AllMusic)".
Following up their ace 2019 debut LP and a string of future- classic singles, Neutrals are now back with "New Town Dream," a 13 song dispatch that takes on modern life and politics (both micro and macro) and situates their scrappy Jam- meets-Television Personalties sound firmly in 2024. Now featuring the sprightly bass and deadpan harmonies/backing vocals of bassist Lauren, Neutrals have turned in their catchiest, sharpest set of tunes yet.