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The album title for French Cassettes new album Benzenean abstraction of frontman Lorzeno Scott Huertas family nicknamewas chosen on a whim. I wish I had a better explanation, he admits. I guess I should have Googled it first.
The self-deprecation is classic Benz, as is this crossing of the wires between the flippant and the deeply meaningful. Its one reason the San Francisco bands third album holds up so well to repeated listens. Even when influences like The Magnetic Fields and The Beach Boys peek through, Huertas lyrical aesthetic is his own: the San Francisco bands new album is packed to the gills with funny, memorable one-liners that take a twist for the heartbreaking. My mothers mother talks in comic sans, he sings. I will never not love her. I wish there were more emails to read.
Benzene, recorded with Cassettes cofounder Mackenzie Bunch (they started the band together in High School back in Ripon, California) and drummer Rob Mills bears evidence of a band more comfortable with both taking risks and taking it easy. When You Know You Know finds a soulful groove that continues into lilting quasi-Americana of Megabus. But the band never stands still for long: Normal Day, with its breakbeat-style drums and woozy Mellotron, is the band at its most carnivalesque. White Noise is a testament to Bunchs knack for adventurous production, all warbling and dueling guitars and brutally oversaturated drums.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Fast Held Hand
2. Eyes Glazed Over
3. Medium Horny
4. Baseball Bat
5. White Noise
Side B
1. When You Know, You Know
2. Megabus
3. Normal Day
4. Finally
5. Up2You
