Kelley Stoltz

Artist- Kelly Stolz
Album- To Dreamers
Label- Sub Pop
Genre- vintage-sounding indie

Sub Pop continues their string of great albums this year with their last release of 2010- songwriter Kelley Stoltz’ newest. This CD is heavily influenced by 60’s pop like The Kinks, the Beatles or Harry Nilson. Sometimes the lyrics are a little too elementary- but hey, the Beatles wrote shitty lyrics sometimes too (“Love Me Do” = awful). “Keeping the Flame” is a stunning track full of surf influence and a trippy keyboard riff. “Baby I’ve Got News For You” is a cover of a psychedelic 60’s track and even features the original writer, Pete Miller, on the track playing the same guitar used in the original recording. “Little Girl” has some hella-nice echoed guitar too and is one of the punkier tracks. “Love Let Me In Again” has cute “sha-la-la-las”.