SMALLPOOLS - "DREAMING" (POP, USA)

There is always room in the charts for pop music that can be interpreted or received as a little bit preppy. A little bit cheesy. A guilty pleasure that you have no qualms over. Los Angeles quartet Smallpools deliver such charismatic college pop through and through.

The band's most recent single is "Dreaming", a perfectly concocted song that bounds along with enthusiasm and typical American bravado as it details the nightmare of a situation and the attempt to rediscover reality and its humbling reassurances. Encroaching jabs of synth and juddered beats immediately dictate: boisterous and enlivened from the offset with a washy dose of California class-rock and electro-pop fuzz that bolsters each chorus section. Smallpools manage to wrap their lyrical musings into a screechy outpouring that adds another element as well as injecting a youthful splash of verve across the canvas. It is all rather Passion Pit, blended with Satellite Stories. Need we say more.

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