Tapes n Tapes - The Loon

1x****
Starts great with the syncopated, driving "Just Drums". Other song are more garagey, and less noteworthy. Choruses of "10 Gallon Ascot" is a swinging Pavement song, with bit Arcade fire choruses. "Crazy Eights" turns a garage riff up, while "Manitoba" goes a softer route, with My Morning Jacket-like reverbed guitars, and "Omaha" goes a bit twee. The album ends with "Jakov's Suite", a fun though generic instrumental, with a Pavement ending.

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