Twice so far I’ve written “Waiting on the Staires” and had to backspace to fix it.

This is one of those 2007 albums that I somehow missed out on. I don’t know if I would have liked Pela’s Anytown Graffiti back then anyway. I didn’t listen to as much music back then as I thought I did–I’m pretty sure I spent a straight month spinning Year Zero on repeat—and what I seemed to enjoy the most was merely the bands I felt belonged to me. I wrote a little rant here about hating Radiohead fans a lot when I was a teenager and how I still hate them because all Radiohead are douchebags, but I erased it.

Pela makes me think of something like The Airborne Toxic Event passed through a Built to Spill filter. I’m probably way off (I usually am, you can tell me), but the Airborne Toxic Event comes through the most on this next track, Drop Me Off

I’m the devil, of course, for using a newer band to describe an older band, but I don’t mind that so much. What’s cool about this song is that you know what it’s about but if you actually listen to the lyrics they don’t make any damn sense at all. I guess that’s a testament to the strength of emotional instrumentation, ’cause I’m pretty sure this song is about knowing that fucking is sometimes a bad idea.

Maybe I’m just projecting.

The rest of Pela’s Anytown Graffiti is pretty damn good. There’s one song where the vocal makes me skip it. If I were to post a third song it would be Rooftops because it, too, has a really powerful slightly emo mood and simple but effective guitar and… Oh, damn, I’ll just post it, too.

I’m such a pushover.