Bleachers’ I Wanna Get Better (Feb ’14) sounds like a Fun. song. We Are Young perhaps. But on the highway instead of taking the back roads. And ironically more fun.
A pop rock song with vocals that sound like they are coming out of a loud hailer. The song steams like a city road after a summer rain.
Bleachers were formed by the lead guitarist of Fun. Jack Antonoff in 2013. Their home field is in NYC. Bleacher’s have one victory to their name Strange Desire (July’14).
Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Pearl Jam are some of Jack’s favourite players but big 80’s soundtrack pop was directing the plays in this game. Wanna take it into overtime? Go long with Rollercoaster, Shadow or Wild Heart.
Big 80’s soundtrack pop? OMD definitely. But not If You Leave, no no, nothing so trite. This is heaps fucking better, Sailing On The Seven Seas (1991).
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