Modern Skirts: All Of Us In Our Night

Athens, Ga. popsters offer mid-tempo pleasantries Amidst Ben Folds-inflected piano rockers, Modern Skirt’s 2005 debut featured the charming “Pasadena,” a shuffling acoustic number that backed heartsick hopes with chiming group vocals. The lion’s share of their follow-up seizes on that formula, at its best holding steady between ’60s sunshine and ’90s alternative, and spinning out breezy jangle pop. The mid-tempo pleasantries do sometimes plod, even with their layered depth, and a...

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