Nominated by: KS
Music club: Wander to Wozza's
There's A Tuesday are on to something mighty fine with Blush even if the cover of the album and the band name are not great..
Band names sidebar - it's a tricky thing naming a band or these days naming yourself as a solo artist. It needs to be a catchy name, original, and it should encapsulate your sound/genre for recognition and sales (in this case the genre is indie rock like The Beths). Some examples of names that sum up the correct approach: The Rolling Stones; Raspberries; Th'Dudes; Hello Sailor...
So, There's A Tuesday to me sounds like a post rock band like Explosions in the Sky and that's not indie rock and that's therefore a potential barrier.
Cover image sidebar - what is going on here? A sleeping dog and a tiger mural? Some reference to let sleeping dogs lie or Life of Pi? Whatever - it doesn't scream indie rock of the quality of Blush.
That brings me to the band members and the vocalist. The fab foursome is Nat Hutton and Minnie Robberds (both on guitar and vocals), Joel Becker (bass) and Gus Murray (drums). Minnie's vocals in particular are spectacular. At times she sounds like Elizabeth Stokes but the music isn't as spiky as that other fab foursome - The Beths. The Tuesdays (a better name) lean towards synth-pop as well which was pretty cool most of the time.
The album was best experienced by me this week as a kind of background sound while I marked and did some lesson planning. Not too many songs stood out even though I played the album every day. However, Margo and The City were two standouts.
Excellent introduction KS - another Kiwi gem with Minnie Robberds emerging as a star in the making.
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