Listen. We get it. There is a definite rebound effect to the pandemic. Records were shelved, tours were postponed. Bands and fans had to wait for what felt like forever to get reacquainted and celebrate their shared love of music. As such, we’ve seen so many releases this year that we’re struggling to keep up. But it gets worse when bands release not one but two great records a mere six months apart. So damn you, Green\/Blue!<\/p>\n
I’m looking at you, Jim Blaha (Blind Shake\/Shadow In The Cracks), Annie Sparrows (Soviettes\/Awesome Snakes), Dan Henry (Sgt 6 Assault\/Dummies\/France Has The Bomb), and Hideo Takahashi (France Has The Bomb\/Sweet J.A.P.\/Nice & Neat Records). I know you are respected veterans of the Minneapolis scene, but you are turning us into spoiled little brats if you continue on this path. With your short and tight mid-fi mesmerizing new wavish, garagy, postpunky pop nuggets. With these ten tracks on Paper Thin<\/em> that are just as great as the ten songs on Offering<\/em><\/a>. Another reason to be kinda mad: how am I going to pick one of these records over the other in my AOTY list?<\/p>\n On Paper Thin<\/em>, Green\/Blue sound like a punkrock version of the Cure or like Arcade Fire on a diet of everything that is good about underground ’80s music, or like Jeff Burke (of Radioactivity\/Marked Men fame) fronting either of these bands. It’s freakin’ great and out now through Feel It Records. But in all fairness, it should be the last Green\/Blue record for at least six months.<\/p>\n