Change Remains (CD)

Candy-coated mod quintet the Starlight Mints sprouted through the ground in Norman, OK - the same home state as the equally oddball dream pop band Flaming Lips. Starlight Mints - vocalist/guitarist Allan Vest, keyboardist Marian Love Nunez, bassist Javier Gonzales, drummer Andy Nunez, and guitarist Matt Goad - began jamming together in the '90s as a seven-person band complete with orchestra, giving birth to their own funky brand of heavily instrumental - think cello, violin, triangle, and sound effects - surrealistically worded pop sound. A perfect fit for the Barsuk label, the Starlight Mints continued to delve further into the indie pop frontiers throughout the '00s.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
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• Release Date: July 21, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Barsuk
• UPC: 655173108925
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113604877
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #69172 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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While the facile thing to do is to compare the whirlingly experimental symphonic indie pop of Starlight Mints to fellow Oklahomans Flaming Lips, and that's a constant pitfall, it's a stunningly inadequate comparison. While the Norman-based band owes much to those wily experimenters that came before, and the Barsuk website does not stretch the truth to dub them "pranksters" (hence there are worse starting points than the FL), Starlight Mints deal in their own brand of mix-and-match musical wizardry, bewitching and magnificently mystifying in its own way, cobbled from its own corners of the rock-&-roll galaxy. And so it goes on their 2009 offering, their fourth overall, CHANGE REMAINS, as the band flits from pitch-perfect pop majesty on single-ready tracks like "Black Champagne" and "Paralyzed," to the LP's second half's TV on the Radio-style indie-disco-hop pure groove-rock fun.

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Starlight Mints are a group of beautiful pop mutants: five singular musical minds whose love for archetypal pop music and AM radio has provided, over the course of three previous acclaimed albums, a rock-solid foundation for a whole bunch of inspired uniqueness, all baked to perfection under the hot Oklahoma sun. Allan Vest (vocals/guitar), Marian Love Nunez (keyboards), Javier Gonzales (bass), Andy Nunez (drums), and Ryan Lindsey (keyboard / guitar) began jamming together in the '90s, giving birth to their own unusual brand of instrumentally complex, surrealistically worded pop sound.

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