Maybe if I lay low

To put it very bluntly and without much poetic effort: there aren’t many bands I love more than Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin. There are few bands who write more subtly addictive melodies, such sweet harmonies, and such perfect sing-alongs than the Missouri quartet.

Often bands come along and people wax poetic about their “Beatles-esque songs.” What this really means is that they make purposely lo-fi records and play viola basses while trying to sound like the Beatles. Then there are bands like Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, who write the kind of melodies that harken Paul & John’s effortless sense of perfection with the same amount of ease. Frontmen Phillip Dickey & John Caldwell is completely unaware, I think, of how wonderful the melodies he writes are, and that is precisely what makes them so special; there is no pretension or effort to be great, it just happens.

Below is a song from the band’s debut 2005 LP Broom (‘Pangea’), A b-side (‘Let’s Get Tired’), & a brand new song, titled Glue Girls, from their second LP Pershing (April – Polyvinyl). It’s a wonderful new look at the band’s progression; same great melodies, only with far superior fidelity than the band’s previous efforts (thanks, Walla).

[mp3] Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin – Pangea
[mp3] Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin – Let’s Get Tired
[mp3] Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin – Glue Girls

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