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The Botticellis have an obsession with pop music, melodic songwriting and the cinematic sounds of yesteryear, but they’re not lost in some oldies Neverland. On Old Home Movies, the quintet gives us ten luminous snapshots of sun-bleached memories. The vision is uniquely Californian, and while their music basks in the warmth of the Sunshine State personified by The Beach Boys, it’s also steeped in the shadows and queasy uncertainty of Raymond Chandler.
The Botticellis began when Zack Ehrlich and Alexi Glickman met playing Suzuki violin duets in a southern California kindergarten class. They started writing songs together in grammar school and continued playing in bands together in high school and college. While studying music at UC Santa Cruz, they met lo-fi auteur, Burton Li, who helped produce an early album for the duo. Li soon joined the band and under the influence of his analogue obsessions, the three moved further up the California coast to San Francisco. Not long after, lyricist Blythe Foster and bass player Ian Nansen were pulled into the fold. The ensemble now lives communally in San Francisco’s foggy Outer Richmond district, where they’ve been working on Old Home Movies for the past four years, refining their muzzy, slightly drugged out, psychedelic sound. The Botticellis’ debut promises to bring burnished, finely crafted pop to the people, filling the heads of their audience with vibrant memories and California day dreams.
The Botticellis began when Zack Ehrlich and Alexi Glickman met playing Suzuki violin duets in a southern California kindergarten class. They started writing songs together in grammar school and continued playing in bands together in high school and college. While studying music at UC Santa Cruz, they met lo-fi auteur, Burton Li, who helped produce an early album for the duo. Li soon joined the band and under the influence of his analogue obsessions, the three moved further up the California coast to San Francisco. Not long after, lyricist Blythe Foster and bass player Ian Nansen were pulled into the fold. The ensemble now lives communally in San Francisco’s foggy Outer Richmond district, where they’ve been working on Old Home Movies for the past four years, refining their muzzy, slightly drugged out, psychedelic sound. The Botticellis’ debut promises to bring burnished, finely crafted pop to the people, filling the heads of their audience with vibrant memories and California day dreams.
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heretocheat wrote:
beautiful..
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BiggestStar wrote:
i thought these guys broke up. glad to see they're still playing shows (even though they're all in the bay area)
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Sweetay wrote:
I want a new album sooooooo bad!
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Goddamnpanda wrote:
It's about time that someone calls your album 'jolly good' in 2010
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TheGuessAvenger wrote:
How on earth did you guys become a similar artist of my university's choir? O.o
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thaimel wrote:
adoooooroo!
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colinclary wrote:
i got yr album at sf popfest last weekend - and very glad i did! lovely! yow!
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A_Gunn wrote:
the vinyl is amazing!!!!!
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GrayFlannelSuit wrote:
Just got their album last week. This is some of the best power pop I have ever heard.
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Siouxlex wrote:
Download the Botticellis from www.daytrotter.com. They have two incredible live sessions for absolutely free.
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TheGuessAvenger wrote:
YAY, I'm seeing you next week!!! ^____^
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TheGuessAvenger wrote:
Absolutely incredible. I loved every song. :) Does anyone have Awaiting on You All they could share with me?
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heylookitsphil wrote:
criminally underrated
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harry_Powell_85 wrote:
They HAVE to come to Barcelona.
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elle__p wrote:
just lovely
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Marshallmaddnes wrote:
nice
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noobserver wrote:
Why don't you bow down to my BALLS
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BiggestStar wrote:
daytrotter = fuck yes
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t_bone_tricia wrote:
how lovely! Flashlight is dreamy
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ECash wrote:
very nice
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