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Pale Sunday
The Fake Stories About You And Me EP Matinee Recordings

Article written by Tom B - Jul 25, 2012

Brazilian indiepop band Pale Sunday have been consistently producing the goods for a decade now with most of their releases on US label Matinee Recordings. These include 2010's Shooting Star EP which is one of my favourite releases that the label has put out to date.

The band draw their inspiration from what is now lazily referred to as the C86 sound whether that would be on Sarah Records circa 1988 or found on Swedish labels like Labrador two decades later. Normally I would deride a band whose sound has remained somewhat static for a decade but thankfully The Fake Stories About You And Me EP is more of the same. If you like fuzzy shimmering pop music about unrequited love then you are in the right place.

Opener Happy (When You Lived Here) features delicious harmonies teaming up with Gustavo's melancholic vocals that excel at storytelling (oh er pun alert!). The guitar on About Your Life sound like they were lifted from The Shop Assistants Big E Power but that's no bad thing as the song buzzes along somewhat nicely. That's The Way starts off as a generic indiepop song but it soon gets going and you are soon nodding, blissfully unaware, along. It's on the gentler songs that the band excel and The Winter Song is no exception. I am not sure what winters are like in Brazil but I am not sure they're as beautiful as this melodic, sentimental and almost orchestral closer complete with mournful vocals and strumming guitar. Whilst there is nothing new soundwise here (if it ain't broke) The Fake Stories About You And Me EP is a rather fine EP which is definitely worth listening to.

Links:
http://www.palesundayband.com/
http://matineerecordings.com
http://www.myspace.com/palesundayband