PACKS - Take the Cake (Splatter Vinyl)

PACKS - Take the Cake (Splatter Vinyl)Torontos PACKS make music thats like leafing through a diary entry of a time without visible movement, a subtle beauty that appears only when paying close attention. The bands debut is a collection of songs that marry the loose but incisive jangle of early Pavement with the barbed sweetness of Sebadoh and the wide eyed wonder of the first Shins LP. Written in two different settings, between the city limits of Toronto where Link was living in 2019, and

as in connected in an emotional way

they sound like The B-52s shaking off heartache

it’s a conversation

On the flip side

Lyrically they are both serious and sarcastic

a phenomenal album from a young group poised to carve their own place in the bins of your favorite record store

Drive-By Truckers used this as the title for their New West Records release

Fran’s music is about sharing a truth -–telling it

quite simply one of the great lps

nature and friendship

The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity

mixed by Al Carlson and mastered by Joe LaPorta