The Hustle’s The Same No Matter What The Game

Anchors For Architects “Feelin’ Like Salieri” – Something seems to be happening in Los Angeles right now. I don’t think I’ve read anything about it anywhere, and but there seems to be quite a pile-up of quality indie rock acts coming out of L.A. in the past couple years. Interestingly, most of them have a musical kinship with the sort of 90s indie that I favor, dodging the sort of trends that I mentioned in the Carbon Dating Service entry from last week, and focusing instead on either a polished, stronger strain of melodic alt-rock (The Oohlas, Irving, Giant Drag, Eagle & Talon), or the sprawling sun-baked punk equivalent of jamming. Anchors For Architects exemplify the latter style, shifting from a loose, listless swing to moments of intensity like The Fall on “Hip Priest,” or Pavement on “Jam Kids.” (Click here to buy it from Papermade Records.)