The Invisible Cities - Watertown

The Invisible Cities
Watertown

I keep hearing awesome songs from The Invisible Cities on SomaFM; this must be the 10th time or something a song of theirs has come on, not that I’m complaining. They often play this slow and majestic type of indie pop tinged with shoegaze and beautiful vocals. The instrumentation on the slower songs remind me of the empty skyshimmer of Idaho and old Red House Painters, while the faster indie pop sounds a bit like That Dog, Pixies or the criminally overlooked Star Ghost Dog. What’s nice about The Invisible Cities is they are able to transcend that single genre tag on their album pretty easily (though I might have tagged them as shoegaze from a few selected tracks if I hadn’t went and listened to some of the others).

The track I hear the most is “Synaptic Gap” from their debut full-length album Watertown an amazing dreamy piece that features Sadie’s vocals drawn out like sheets flapping in the breeze.

Other standout tracks include the forlorn sounding “Birthday” and the slightly country inflected “Shooting Star”, the Muffs-like “Oh Yeah” and the energetic and bratty sounding “Take My Picture”.

I guess I’m not the first to notice them, as the band was also voted as Best Indie Pop Band of 2005 by a SF Bay Guardian poll. Some really nice tunes…

The Invisible Cities website

by Palebear