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Fresh from the fields of Mystery Lawn Music, Bay Area indie-poppers The Corner Laughers invite listeners to gather in their summer-solstice 2012 release Poppy Seeds. The record is a shimmering love letter to the Golden State, offering the clever wordplay, magical melodies and heartbreaking harmonies fans and critics have come to expect from the group while breaking new ground in focus, depth and texture.

The band is led by singer/ukulele player Karla Kane, with bassist Khoi Huynh, drummer Charlie Crabtree, and guitarists KC Bowman and co-founder Angela Silletto, who made the poignant decision to leave the band midway through the recording of the album to pursue a new path, away from her native California. Their sound defies pigeonholes but has been compared to that of Kirsty MacColl, XTC and, despite some sunshine-pop tendencies, the “rainy melancholia” of Camera Obscura (Magnet Magazine).

Produced by Allen Clapp (The Orange Peels), Poppy Seeds also features collaborations with power-pop legend Mike Viola (Candy Butchers) and psych-pop expat Anton Barbeau. The record boasts liner notes by best-selling novelist Wesley Stace (folk-rocker John Wesley Harding), who ponders, “Who is immune to the charms of airy female vocals and the ukulele, with lyrics full of pith (but not vinegar)? Nobody. The moment I turn on Poppy Seeds, I remember that sugar is sweet.”
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