Remember 'Romance' with the Redwalls

For Redwalls frontman Logan Baren, the summer still simmers as he wistfully pleads for the days with his "darling." Expounding on love in the hottest season, "Summer Romance" isn't quite Danny and Sandy at Rydell High, but the nostalgic number works to the same reminiscent end. Widening a familiar scope, the begging in the retro-hook ("Please don't let me say goodbye.") recalls the band's vintage-flavored peers the Strokes, seeing their nimble guitars and raising them some sailing harmonies.

In the '60s-flavored verses Baren sounds like his mind is elsewhere, but as the crescendo builds, pulling him deliberately back to now, his voice morphs to a fevered shout: "Time goes on and feelings change/Infatuation fades away/The ties that bind begin to fray!" The bursts of denial are all he can do to try to convince himself but his plaintive tone is revealing -- he knows good and well that some things end too soon. The Redwalls will release their self-titled full-length on Oct. 23 on the Mad Dragon imprint. 

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