We’re Almost There… 25 Years of Cheezy Pop by Half an Hour From The Airport, with the exception of the brand new single We’re Sorta Strangers, is a compilation of the bands’ favorites from their What’d She Say (1998) and Dial Up The Phone (1999) albums, which naturally I am intimately familiar with as I am your favorite oracle of all that is good and jangly.

OK, now I feel bad as I have turned this blog into a receptacle for my ego-tickling lies, as in reality, much to my shame and chagrin, I have never heard of this band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of Justin Kleinman and Jason Nordenstam. However, I am glad my regular trawls through the roads less traveled on Bandcamp have led me to finding them.

Full of the cultish quirk-pop of mid-to-late-80s Anglo-Jangly indie-pop, the release takes a trip through all that was worthy to the 80s cardigan and side-parting wearers of the era.

As such, Sunnie Day, What’d She Say, and Without You twist the most recent Milk Aisle Gorbachev-style lo-fi twee through twisted Television Personalities‘ faux intricacies to offer an aesthetic that is so obtuse that it quickly becomes thoroughly beguiling.

Similarly, It’s A Secret, Dream of You, and 51 Fire Engines (Y2K) step over the edge of 90s and into 2000s jangly indie-pop with their stripped-back Dukes of Stratosphear aesthetic, whereas the slight outlier of All Through the Night feels like early C86/The Pastels after a gloriously heavy night.

A truly wonderful find for ‘you lot’, even if for me it is merely a re-acquaintance for this ‘oracle’ with an incredibly cool old friend.

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