Art Museums / Dancing With A Hole In Your Heart

Slumberland

The Art Museums exploded onto the imaginary Pop Art scene in their minds back in 2010 with the widely acclaimed Rough Frame LP on Woodsist. Comfortably occupying the spot where ’60s pop suss meets first-wave post-punk DIY pop and contemporary bedroom experimentation, they craft positively giddy tunes that make terms like lo-fi and indie-pop redundant and pointless; this is just great pop made by people who know and love it. The Museums’ Glenn Donaldson and Josh Alper have been at it in the bedroom for a little while now and are there for you when you’re feeling confused, lonely or alienated and only a 45 RPM single can help. “Dancing With a Hole in Your Heart” is an ace sing-along tune that would be right at home on Dan Treacy’s legendary Whaam! label, a succinct 1:30 of slashing, modish guitars and great vocal harmonies. “Imaginary Day” and “You Don’t Want to Live Like That” are equally fab—catchy tunes filled with earnestly strummed guitars, thumping drum machines and cheap keyboards. Crucial, elemental pop thrills.  “Passing on their peers’ experimental tendencies, the duo enthusiastically professes the lo-fi indie pop religion of heroes Television Personalities and legendary labels like Sarah, Slumberland, K, and Flying Nun.” —Pitckfork

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