Pictured: Credit to HowWasTheShow.com for this picture that I stole. Credit to the lighting crew at the Varsity Theater for being absolutely rediculous.
The story of Picking a Lock at the Speed of Light goes something like this, I gather:
a) boy likes girl,
b) boy also likes outer space, a lot,
c) boy takes girl to outer space in a rocket ship to impress her,
d) girl doesn’t like boy or outer space,
e) crap. Gigantic u-turn.
These Modern Socks tell their tale with a fairly adventurous exploration of cheap-beat electro-pop music and bits of fuzzy, overdriven guitars. There’s plenty of star gazing, gravity-free atmospheres and weird jelly food(i.e., funk) along the way, but in the end, both love and outer space are far out of reach for skinny-legged dudes with shaggy hair and bedrooms full of keyboards.
These Modern Socks - No One’s Gonna Miss Me
Here’s the album’s light-footed first tune, No One’s Gonna Miss Me.
These Modern Socks - On The Moon
And for comparison’s sake, the closer, On the Moon, after a visit to Radio-Friendly Rock Galaxy.
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