Three's Co.

Description

Lazy rock classicists in the spirit of the Byrds or the Beach Boys, the third album from The Tyde sees these young Los Angeles songsmiths delving further into the sunshine-flecked orchestral pop that made its predecessors, 2001’s Once and 2003’s Twice such slow-burning statements. Built around the husband-wife team of Darren and Ann Do Rademaker--whose swells of synthesiser, mellotron, and Wurlitzer are the secret heart to these sunny-disposition surfer’s anthems--Three’s Co is light, optimistic and immediately engaging. Numbers like "Do It Again Again" and "Too Many Kims" imagine a Brian Wilson content to turn up and crank out the odd lo-fi anthem in his garage, while the rambunctious "Brock Landers" offers up a notable guest spot in the shape of Conor Deasy, frontman of The Tyde’s transatlantic soulmates The Thrills. The dreamy "Glassbottom Lights" is the album’s most flat-out beautiful number, however, Rademaker’s breathy vocal caught on an updraft of wispy synth and Byrds-eque guitar in a distant echo of Primal Scream’s classic "Velocity Girl". --Louis Pattison