I decided that I liked And the Relatives before I had ever actually heard them. Chalk this up to the fact that they're born and bred Nashvillians, which I find endearing in this day and age of rock bands moving here to... ahem, "make it".
Here's what Matt "Black-Metal-Hard-On" Sullivan over at Nashville Scene has to say on the boys:
Indie rock in the '90s was all about guitars. The best of the decade were careful students of rock history with quirky idiosyncrasies. And the Relatives are like that perfectly preserved fossil in amber in Jurassic Park—they play the kind of indie rock that existed before the meaning of "indie" became extinct. Before indie rock was hijacked as an industry buzzword to describe major-label bands like the Killers or the Strokes, indie bands sounded a lot like And the Relatives—pop music amidst an unruly backdrop and some pretty sweet sounding guitars.
"Cowboy Jazz"
"Puppetry"
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