Husbands

One Liner: Laid-back indie rock from a group of great moustaches

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but indie rock

Home: Oklahoma City

Poster Position: Level 4 (26)
Weekend One Only.  

Saturday.

Thoughts:  Their Spotify bio says they play "landlocked beach pop that sidequests Krautrock, garage rock, and tropicalia."  I have no clue how to parse that sentence into anything resembling understanding.  Is that somehow built for Search Engine Optimization?  Did someone win a bet by using those words in the same sentence?  But I will readily admit that their bio pic features three excellent mustaches, especially the ginger one.

Wikipedia tells me that there is a band called The Husbands, which is an all-female garage punk band from San Francisco.  It is also the title of an American sitcom (that I have never heard of), and a 1970 film directed by John Cassavetes.  But no mention of this band that is from Oklahoma City.  The article I found about them, from, 2020, calls them a duo, but their current photo shows five dudes.  That article also says that the original duo worked on a Godzilla musical while at Oklahoma Christian University and that bonded them.  Also of note, to me at least, they still had day jobs in 2020 as they prepared to release their second album - an attorney and a software engineer.  I wanna be in a band.

Anyway, five albums - 2015's Golden Year, 2018's Karlstad, 2020's After the Gold Rush Party, 2020's Wayne John, and 2022's Full-On Monet.  I only count six songs with more than a million streams, but they have a nice vibe to them.  Top streamer is from the 2020 album, called "Mexico," with 5.3 million.

Nice little pop rock zip.  "so it again? I said without any doubt."  Fun line that rolls off the tongue.  "She's a Betty" is kind of fun, and "Wishbone" has a smooth groove to it.  And then second-most streamed is from the new disc, so let's go there!  "Must be a Cop" has 3.7 million.

Little more spacey than the old sound, but still tasty.  Almost has a Spoon sound at the start of it, and some of the vocals recalls The Shins.  Some of these tunes get a little too light, too "lalalalalalala" over smooth guitars-type thing, but overall, there is a lot to like in this catalog of music.  I'm sure they'll be playing the noon slot on Sunday or something, but this is good.