Album Notes

Armed with a narcotic grace and a bone-dry sense of humor, Bedroom Walls aim to instruct listeners in the proper use of melancholy. The L.A. WEEKLY explains, "Music has to be liked a bit too much. Bedroom Walls make that easy, playing songs with awkward perfection. It's shamelessly melodic, kind of ambient, kind of spaced-out, surprisingly clever. It's like your little sister on drugs, insouciant and a bit off-the-wall." Or, as Bedroom Walls told the LOS ANGELES TIMES with a sly wink, "We just want to make people sad." Bedroom Walls formed in 2002 when Adam Goldman, Melissa Thorne and Julian Gross (now of Liars) got together in Los Angeles to arrange the repertoire of ethereal non-sequiturs Goldman had been amassing by the light of the dirty L.A. moon. The group began rehearsing songs that would eventually populate their sleepy, infectious 2003 debut, I SAW YOU COMING BACK TO ME. In a brazen act of sublime idiocy, they dubbed their sound Romanticore. Critics and fans liked what they heard – the record earned praise for its stunning textures, shimmering melodies, and dark wit from the likes of ROLLING STONE, THE VILLAGE VOICE, and THE BOSTON PHOENIX, and DJ Nic Harcourt invited them on his legendary KCRW radio show for an in-studio performance. (ISYCBTM reached #9 on KCRW’s album chart the month of its release.) The band expanded to a septet and played shows in New York City, Boston, San Francisco and Austin, where they wowed industry-types and Lone Star hipsters at last year’s South-By-Southwest Festival. Recorded by Rafter Roberts (Fiery Furnaces, Black Heart Procession, Castanets, Sufjan Stevens) at Singing Serpent in San Diego, I SAW YOU COMING BACK TO ME deftly mixes moody "baroque-minimalism" with offbeat humor, revealing an uncanny gift for finding the bliss in melancholy and vice versa. From the subtle menace of "Winter, That's All," to the Steve Reich-meets-Cocteau Twins coda of "There's Nothing to See in the Morning Light," to "The Dogs Life," which outlines the dangers of comfort in sleepy, somber strokes, I SAW YOU COMING BACK TO ME offers a bipolar concoction of laughing gas and valium. A potent elixir for the indie rock set.