The 1986 Listening Post - Red Guitars - Tales of the Unexpected

Red Guitars - Tales of the Unexpected

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October 6 1986

Red Guitars

Tales of the Unexpected

Genre: Swirly Smooth Jangle Pop

3.5 out of 5

Highlights:

Suspicion & Fear

Whatever excitement I had over that first Red Guitars record is pretty much gone as they sound like a lesser version of…Everything But the Girl? Style Council? In that world. But with an appealing vocalist. 

We don’t have the complete album so these 6 tracks will have to be representative of them. 

No surprise that RG didn’t amount to anything more. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUemwD-gWrA&list=PLBJ7ztNazTVB1uokP4OJpAiU-X4lHsrYF 

The 1984 Listening Post - The Red Guitars - Slow to Fade

The Red Guitars - Slow to Fade

The Red Guitars
Slow to Fade


Highlights:
Dive


If you told me that The Red Guitars went to sleep and woke up 20 years later to find themselves in Vampire Weekend, I could believe that.
Except these guys don’t seem as weirdly precious/affected as Ezra Koenig.
There’s no wheel reinvention here. It’s pleasant.