Except apparently there's not, and Let's Go Sailing require themselves to be recognized for their merits. It doesn't help then that there isn't a single new idea here, until you realize that rarely are these kinds of ideas this well-composed, or this nostalgically beautiful, in a way that only a city with brightly colored houses can be.   Full text...

Let’s Go Sailing’s Shana Levy is a modern day Marlo Thomas (booyah Laurie Berkner, booyah!) Destined from childhood to be part of The Ship (Earlimart, Irving, Silversun Pickups) – her moniker; Let’s Go Sailing was a bumper sticker on Mummy and Daddy’s car (“We did a lot of sailing”).  Full text...

An album where adulthood coaxes this indie pop-obsessed schoolgirl with a curling finger, taunts her with playful tugs on gift-ribboned pigtails.   Full text...

The Chaos in Order sounds as cute as its homemade artwork.  Full text...