Since 2015, Jacksonville, FLA, indie rockers flipturn have been maturing a sound that will be pressed and released later this summer.
Commenters find this music to be immaculate, or good music to listen to with your boyfriend. While I listen to one of their three singles, "Halfway," I'm questioning where the indie movement and pop intersect, or whether here is an instance where indie is just kind of consuming pop and producing something new and fantastic. The lyrics are so practiced and simple. I'm dreaming of C-460, Glenda the Good Witch. #mesas #desert skylines. I've never thought of being able to smell someone's lips. In fact, don't you kind of think they are odorless? But I love the way soul and bright guitar come together in this song. Easy soul in this song is detached from its own subject of regret and consumed in the beauty of the music. Righteous like Tedeschi Trucks, and just beautiful and fun. Love the organy piano! Then, "August," another single, delves into a more complex sound, with stilted rhythms and guttural vocalizations, howls and a transcendent empowered feel. This is more of an indie sound to me -- one maybe in the vein of Electrelane (for the dramatic feel and quality of electric guitar,) or "brooklyn baby," a third single, gives us distortion in the intro ala mac DeMarco, that fades into jazzy, even smooth jazzy infused rock delivery of, again, Electrelane or maybe gosh one of the greats - like Bruce Hornsby! There's rock and upbeat rhythm, and a kind of lost, indirect appeal to the past that sets us in our genre. All in all, the three singles for this groups upcoming album have me excited about the range of their indie rock sound, which touches on retro rock and a kind of dark, homestead indie scene that I think is out there, as well as great summery outdoorsy festival music with "Halfway." Definitely check this group out when they make their way to bonnaroo this summer, or more locally, the Broadberry, this November!
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