Jack's Mannequin and nostalgia

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Oh. my. god. So my roommate's been pimping me into this band and I'm now just obsessively in love with the music.

It's like, bottled joy. Something about the progressions they're using, the way the piano is used, the use of echoed lyrics, and the happiness, and the wry lyrics, and the...something. Something. Something in the songs by this band sounds like pure summer to me, it sounds like home and SoCal, it sounds like potential and I *can't* stop listening.

Here's their current most popular song played live, (The Mixed Tape), watch the lead singer molest the mic XD. Personally I like 'I'm Ready', 'Dark Blue', and 'The Lights and Buzz', better.

God, I want to vid them, but I don't know that I can do it justice, to visually show where the sound takes me.

Comments

[penm.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard anything by Something Corporate? The lead singer of Jack's Mannequin is actually the lead of Something Corporate and they have a very similar sound. If you like Jack's Mannequin, you might like Something Corporate. They were my favourite band pre-Franz Ferdinand. :)

[the-suit-case.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going to see Jack's Mannequin in about two weeks, so I'm pretty excited to see talk of them suddenly pop up on my flist when no one I know even knows about them.

Um. Yeah.