"teen blisser's richard marx and jonathan phillips blank gazing is more telling than anything else; all shimmering guitar lines evoking beverly hills cop II soundtrack and suburban mall kultur. briefly curated house show and byob lifestyle block, galway avenue becomes the only vital location for outsider gesturing this spring season. marks' solo work as "with moths" reveals a muted grunge spirit, slimed out in spectral delay and moevot cues, which is denied in the breeze fm meets lo wave project with mount pleasant's jonathan phillips. these bros know how to have fun, but mostly it seems sort of tired and in a "getting too old for this sort of shit" way, like huey lewis and the news."
