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The band didn’t plan to follow \u003ci\u003eStill Lines \u003c\/i\u003eso quickly. But after the pandemic further delayed that multi-year project, Alex Naidus (guitar, vocals, former Pains of Being Pure at Heart), Andrew Romano (guitar, vocals), Gabrielle Ferrer (keyboards, percussion, vocals), David Rager (bass) and Natalie de Almeida (drums) leapt at the chance to make music together again in real life and started gathering on random summer evenings in the tiny rehearsal-space studio of producer-composer Andrew Brassell (Susanna Hoffs) with no clear goal in mind. Lane Lines is the surprise product of those informal sessions — a flash of pent-up creative energy that serves as both a companion piece to Still Life and an exploration of textures and influences that didn’t quite fit the full-length but have always been deeply embedded in the band’s DNA, with new echoes of 1980s artists that sought to refract the 1960s through their own skewed prisms: Flying Nun, the Paisley Underground, The Feelies covering The Beatles, “Second Summer of Love” New Order. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mt St Mtn Records","offers":[{"title":"Black | 12\"","offer_id":51030041559371,"sku":"1139833","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2761da7d-0a32-4621-9c72-902f3bf81106_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1735700882"},{"product_id":"coaster","title":"Coaster","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s been four years since L.A. indie-pop mainstays Massage last released new music. Now, they return with \u003cem\u003eCoaster\u003c\/em\u003e, a masterful 10-track album that finds the band facing the upheaval and uncertainty of adulthood the only way they know how: together, five longtime friends, turning out one Perfect Pop Song after another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wait was worth it. Massage have always seen themselves as music fans rather than proper “musicians,” and \u003cem\u003eCoaster\u003c\/em\u003e — their third LP after 2018’s \u003cem\u003eOh Boy\u003c\/em\u003e and 2021’s \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e — still conjures memories of other eras: the braided rumble of The Cure’s “Pictures of You”; the radiant clang of Big Star’s “September Gurls”; the strobe-light sheen of Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Bring on the Dancing Horses”; the hazy strum of David Kilgour’s “Shivering”; even the post-Madchester swagger of prime Oasis, if you squint hard enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet while facets of \u003cem\u003eCoaster\u003c\/em\u003e might feel familiar, here they add up to something greater, and rarer — a band that finally sounds more like itself than its influences. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We’ve been labeled ‘jangle pop’ and lumped in with ‘fog pop,’” says Andrew Romano, guitarist and vocalist. “We even called ourselves ‘college rock.’ But we never really fit in anywhere. 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