Adam Bayer and
Maria Pitallano, fond of titular tongue-twisters and the off-key vocal, lace their press releases with names like
Beat Happening or
Pale Saints in hopes that the mere mention of their musical deities will trigger off the indie pop version of a Beetlejuice-ian muse to materialize inside their own bitter recordings. Not since Alfie's If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing has a band tried to promote an album of such
Autumngirlarchershorsemenbringarrows proportions but, if the Mancunians were over-educated Charlatans proxies, Bayer and Pitallano try and fail to avoid attracting aspersions of being bargain-bin
Rainer Maria emo wannabes.