Smith Westerns, Not There Yet But Self Aware

Have you heard the debut from Smith Westerns ? I have, and it kind of blows. I understand the vibe they're going for, lo-fi garage "pop," but the execution is flawed resulting in a collection of songs that sound like fuzzy third-gen carbon copies of each other. Despite that the band has been riding a wave of ever growing buzz over the last year. Now I haven't seen them live yet, and from what I ...

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