For those unaware, A Company Sleeve, the new full-length LP from The Pretty Flowers (Noah Green, guitar/vocals; Sam Tiger, bass/vocals); Jake Gideon, guitar/vocals; and Sean Johnson, drums), is coming out on July 14th, 2023 via Double Helix Records.

The four-piece indie rock band from Los Angeles, whose music has been described as hooky, heartfelt and literate, have influences that span more than a few decades of loud guitar indie and college rock, that include, but are not limited to, such bands as Guided By Voices, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Superchunk and Teenage Fanclub.

Furthermore, since the release of their brilliant debut album Why Trains Crash, the band has played a lot of shows around their hometown and toured the west coast a few times also. Their songs have even been featured on two seasons of Showtime’s Shameless, season 2 of the CW’s Nancy Drew, Peacock TV’s The Resort, and most recently SyFy’s Resident Alien.

Side A:
1. Young Gray Enemies
2. Another Way To Lose
3. Hit Nothing
4. Baby Food
5. Bucket Beach
6. Agendaless

Side B:
7. Wildflowers
8. Honeylight
9. Doughboy Pool
10. Sit Right With You
11. The Long Con
12. Soon Enough Blues

Putting the vinyl LP on the turntable and this melodically exciting band open up their sophomore album with the vibrantly-hued Young Gray Enemies and the powerful, lean in rock of Another Way To Lose, and then back those up with the drum-led, ’60s-imbibed beauty Hit Nothing, the glamorously frenetic Baby Food (their first single, and which touches on the feeling of being overwhelmed with everyday life), before bringing us the low slung grunge-pop vibe of Bucket Beach and the veritably shimmering Agendaless.

Flipping the LP over, an LP that I should also mention has a first pressing on Translucent Blue (limited to 250) and there will also be a first pressing of an Opaque Blue (also limited to 250), continues onward with the tambourine-imbibed Wildflowers, the impassioned Honeylight, and then they bring forth the psych-tinged alt-rocker Doughboy Pool, the guitar-driven Sit Right With You, the album rounding out on the shimmering guitar work found within The Long Con, coming to a close on the countrified-twang of the mid-tempo Soon Enough Blues.

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