Two Deliverances: Been Stellar and O.
On Best Buy-core, Pavlovian looping pedals and the two latest protegees of Dan Carey, aka "Beats By the £"
Been Stellar - Scream From New York, NY
Look at my album cover, dawg - I’m going to Best Buy.
Seriously, though…that typeface! That color scheme! That Sega CD-style screenshot resolution! The band name and the fact that their debut is called Scream from New York, NY! My brain was afloat in a pool of Yuengling and Bacardi Razz for the majority of 2001-2003, so forgive me if my memories are flawed…but I am utterly convinced I copped this and, I dunno, Highly Evolved or The Coral and played it maybe two times while taking UVA to yet another natty in EA Sports NCAA Football 2003. Or, maybe I gave it a passing listen while mowing my parents’ lawn in between writing law school admissions essays. I took [REDACTED] for the first time at the absolute disaster of Field Day, so maybe I misremembered seeing these guys play at 2 PM in the Giants Stadium parking lot before Beck canceled his set. I know John Norris interviewed these guys on MTV2 and not for Stereogum, because I’d rather not consider the possibility that Matt Pinfield and Kurt Loder might be trying to steal bylines from me in 2024.
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