My Wonderful Boyfriend – “My New Shirt”

My Wonderful Boyfriend are a new-ish NYC indie rock band informed by the classics. In promo materials, the band claims influences such as “Pavement, Big Star, Blur, Wilco, and Vampire Weekend,” and I hear a lot of that in “My New Shirt,” the new single from their forthcoming EP Mr. Authenticity Speaks. The track pulses with nervous energy and piles on melodies in the form of lush keyboard lines, darting guitar riffs, and P.J. McCormick’s scrappy-underdog vocals. At first the whole t...

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