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| Popmatters |
 The best decision this Missouri quintet ever made was choosing the name they did. After all, how many bands out there can actually make you wonder for a split second whether or not they appreciate the oligarchical reform of Boris Yeltsin? (If you actually think they do love Boris Yeltsin, it’s merely a joke.) Seeing SSLYBY’s name on a page should most likely boost your interest in their sound, but if that’s not the case, then it should at least make you wonder exactly how wacky these guys can get. Truthfully, they’re not all that wacky. In fact, their music is prototypical indie rock: acoustic guitars, a singer that resembles Elliott Smith, catchy musical breakdowns on the majority of their tracks. Yet if you taking your first dive into this group’s music, Tape Club isn’t the place to start. Like most b-side or rarities collections, this double-disc excursion seems more like the band’s excuse to make some extra cash than to offer a glimpse into their evolution. After all, they’ve got three LPs that do exactly that, offering up the best material they’ve recorded in their five-year span. From the blissful summer anthems of 2005’s Pangea to last year’s alt-country tinged Let It Sway, SSLYBY have settled more and more into their skin with each release, perfecting their string-plucking breakdowns on “Back in the Saddle” and “Everlyn” while also increasing their effectiveness in the acoustic lullaby department with “Stuart Gets Lost Dans Le Metro”. This time, though, the influx of “new” material doesn’t make up for the fact that the majority of the songs aren’t worth being exposed to. Although these sorts of releases are all too familiar in the legacies of classic rock acts, with bands putting out anniversary box sets every five years and somehow including bonus material every time, it goes without saying that Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin aren’t quite at the ranks of the Who or Led Zeppelin. Hearing lesser-produced songs in this band’s catalog doesn’t nearly have the same stigma as hearing “Blueberry Hill” performed by a then-unknown Page and Plant. So when you get halfway through the album and realize every song is missing the punch-and-pizazz of their previous work, it begs the question of why they ever released Tape Club in the first place. With the exception of “Half Awake (Deb)”, which busts out a clever bass change early into the first verse, and “Same Speed”, a folk tune backed with some jazz bass elements, no song really stands out on the entire collection. It’s a hodgepodge of mediocrity....full text |
| Consequenceofsound |
| After releasing their third full-length album since 2005 with last August’s Let It Sway, Springfield, MO indie-pop rockers Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin are moving forward with their next effort by plumbing the depths of their impressive back catalog. In stores in October, Tape Club is a 26-track effort comprised of the band’s favorite unreleased songs and hard-to-find material. The tracklist ranges from demo material from 2005′s first release, Broom, to more recent work with Chris Walla for the Let It Sway sessions. Check out the complete tracklist below. The first track to surface from the compilation is “Yellow Missing Signs”, which is streaming below. It’s your standard bubbly, ’80s-inspired SSLYBY synthpop, but with decidedly darker lyrical content about trouble in a small town....full text |
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