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The Mary Onettes /// “Bricks” /// Islands

You’d think once we realized the 1980s were a renewable resource we’d stop referring to this or that band “mining” the era for their apparently capitalist ends—as though more than 0.001% of musicians get rich.  Then again, it can be hard to communicate a genuine affection for those (never really) bygone standards when everyone else is using them as industrial marketing lube.  To the Mary Onettes, the drizzly, symphonic European pop of that most flattening decade is more a perpetual waterfall, the natural flow of energy that drives hydroelectric dreams.

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