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TDoL gets Pantsed … holla!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

I like the word “pants.” I’m not sure why; it just sounds funny … especially when used as a verb.

Follow it with the word “yell” with an exclamation point and you have an entirely different thing going on. Pants Yell! have been around for a few years now, assembling jangly pop songs from their home-base in Cambridge, Mass. It’s the sort of (borderline) cutesy, melancholic indie rock you’d expect to hear on—wait for it—Slumberland Records … which, of course, also puts out albums by artists like Black Tambourine, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and the Crystal Stilts. Me likes.

Pants Yell! will release Received Pronunciation (its first for Slumberland) on Nov. 10, an album that delivers more pop-meets-noise tunes taken to playful levels by Andrew Churchman’s hushed vocals and quirky wordplay … what would you expect? The band’s name is Pants Yell! fer gawd’s sake.

“Cold Hands” - Pants Yell!

Tags: Andrew Churchman, Black Tambourine, Crystal Stilts, Pants Yell!, Received Pronunciation, Slumberland Records, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart