Well here’s a cool new band for guitar pop enthusiasts who like their tunes a little scruffy and lo-fi, yet undeniably melodic. Commercial Breaks hail from Austin, Texas, and feature at least one pair of brothers alongside members of Gus Baldwin and the Sketch and Tres Oui.
Most of these songs land firmly in old-school garage power pop territory, but the band isn’t afraid to wander. There’s an unmistakable ’80s college rock vibe on some tracks, while Nature and Mirror drift into lightly shoegazed, reverb-soaked territory. Elsewhere, This Is Why I Want a Gun taps into something closer to raw proto-punk.
It feels like a band deliberately tugging at the rug now and then, teasing the range of ideas they’re sitting on without ever losing the hook. A very cool record, and one that keeps revealing little surprises as it spins.
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