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Somerset Thrower – “Godspeed” LP
Long Island’s Somerset Thrower released an album – Paint My memory – on Dead Broke/Triple B in 2020, which not surprisingly has proved to be right popular. So here now is 2018’s Godspeed album.
“They’ve got a sound that’s got one foot in Jawbreaker/Sunny Day Real Estate-style emo and another in Gin Blossoms-y alt-rock, and though they aren’t the first modern-day band to bring those two sides of the ’90s together, they do it in a way that feels fresh and vital.”
But what’s with the name? A euphemism for vomiting after drinking too much cider, perhaps…