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Yeah, Tonight

Gold-Bears

2014

Yeah, Tonight

Release Date:  2014

By Pitchfork

Reviewed June 19, 2014

“Yeah, Tonight” serves as the opening track on Gold-Bears’ Dalliance, and it wastes no time establishing a vigorous blitz of energy and bravado. Immediately, cymbals start crashing and riffs begin slicing through the air while lead singer Jeremy Underwood wields his voice alongside the sinuous surge of noise. Emma Kupa, of the now-defunct London band Standard Fare, is the euphonious missing piece to Gold-Bears’ music, lending her harmonies to intensify the band’s already charismatic pop melodies. Together, they amplify pique lines like the kiss-off, “And I guess I never loved you anyway.” Just like their previous outputs, “Yeah, Tonight” shares the same pedigree as a band like Los Campesinos! while extracting the crunchiest punk fundamentals of Superchunk, all together a pure two-and-a-half minutes of power-pop bliss.

8:00 PM · Jun 19, 2014