Los Angeles is the worst place in the world to listen to an album with natural constants. Sleepy Turtles’ Summer, Hither…as I sat in a sea of vehicles with an older woman talking the ear off a youth, I tried to imagine the hills of Hollywood weren’t polluted with overzealous homes. Their green proudly showcasing its given right as “Nature’s Hymn” went on…
As the title track “Summer, Hither” played, images of Milo and Otis in this newly imagined city came to mind. If you’ve never seen that cinematic gem, it’s laid back and woodsy. And if Panic! At The Disco was still going through that Pretty Odd phase but slowed down their sound, they could’ve written “Morning Song.” With all the folk and slow pace going around Summer, Hither, I didn’t expect to compare Sleepy Turtles to Muse. But one can’t ignore the way their voices together at the start of “Reason to Hope” sound a lot like that one Muse song.
If The Tower and The Fools had a laid back cousin then it’d be Sleepy Turtles. This only resonated with me when “Being Small” started. Gold star for that one for bringing some humanistic qualities to the record.
Sleepy Turtles’ Summer, Hither is out now on Autumn + Colour Records, and you can pick up a limited vinyl version of the record on July 10th.
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