This label has a vintage aesthetic and releases great indie pop records. One such fine example is the self-titled CD from Orange Nichole (Penguin). Such charming gems are here as "Coupon of Love" which marries a martial snare beat to reverb-drenched guitar and a saccharine teenbeat love song.
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..there ought to be room for dazed-sounding and slightly ooky sweetness 'n' light and if that's what you're looking for then you've come to the right place. Just remember that all aesthetic distinctions are really class distinctions. So file this under "music for well-off dilettantes educated enough to dig quirky lyrics but too hip to 'fess up to the fact that they dig strangeness for its own sake." Now, this kind of flimsy whimsy is not for everyone, but if you can put up with Van Morrison's mystic blather and with lots of smirky Go-Gos cheek and you dig a band like Pizzicato Five the most, well, this ain't them but it IS the kind of navel-gazing background music you can groove to in your express elevator to hippy-dippy nirvana (the mystic state, not the band). My picks to hit: "Sister" and "Tidal Pool."
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Fresh as a spring day in the '60s
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Set to a loungy, jazz-pop feel (complete with vibes), there's no way I can ever hate a band that rhymes "Jupiter" with "stupider."
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