Citified – The Meeting After the Meeting
Back in ’05 before I was doing the blog thing, I had run across a fantastic little mini LP by Greensboro, North Carolina’s Citified that was released on Eskimo Kiss Records. As far as catchy indie rock albums went, I think it was definitely my favorite of the bunch that year. Part of it had a lo-fi 80’s college rock type of feel to it, while also managing to sprinkle in dabs of reverb throughout. It had me hooked pretty quickly, to say the least.
Anyway, I think at the time of the first recording Citified was mostly the one man project of Chris Jackson with maybe a couple other guys helping out here and there. Just this past month or so though Citified has returned, and this time Jackson has recruited a full band to back him. The bands second release, The Meeting after the Meeting, is yet another small dose of nostalgia and reverb drenched melodies. It took me a bit to get used to cleaner and fully fleshed out sound, however everything that made the first LP so special is successfully worked into the seven songs on this EP. The clarity allows the glistening guitar lines to add a bit of a dream-pop element to the bands overall sound that couldn’t or didn’t really make as much of an appearance on the first record. The distance in Jackson’s vocals fit right along with the underlying melancholic small town trappings, which was one of the things that initially endeared the bands music to me when I first discovered them.
The Meeting After the Meeting:
Citified – Read Like a Number [MP3]
Citified:
Citified – I’ve Seen You Older [MP3]
Part of me wonders what a proper full-length album from these guys would be like, but then again the songs are so short and sweet I don’t necessarily see it happening or how it would work in the first place. Regardless, I’ll settle for the small dashes of output from Citified over most “indie” bands entire discography any day. For those that are interested, then head on over to Eskimo Kiss to pick up the bands latest EP The Meeting After the Meeting. The bands first LP is also available too, so definitely pick that up if you have the chance.
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April 17th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Reminds me a bit of The Sheila Divine. They had a record on Roadrunner(!!!) a few years back…7 or 8 maybe…there was a song called “Like A Criminal” that I STILL fucking love. That whole record is solid though. The rest of their output, not so much. Thanks for the tip on this…
April 17th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I remember The Sheila Divine, I think I even still have that album you’re talking about. It was called New Parade right? I am pretty sure that was some sort of blind purchase I made out of one of those music clubs back in the day. I’ll have to try and dig that out.