Party Plants

Party Plants EP

Tape Deck

Inside this plain white cassette with a stick-on label spools a garage rock band writing songs no one else would think to. "Nightmower" justifies yard maintenance after dark, and "Great Interplanetary Romance" conceptualizes Graham Goodman and Carol Ann Willhite concocting a familial relationship between celestial bodies to UFO synth buzzes. The singing's graceless and music ramshackle, but wit sustains this four-tune debut.

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