Anybody who grew up listening to the elegantly miserable 1980's guitar-pop faithfully evoked on Wild Nothing's excellent Gemini knows a thing or two about being down. That this comfortably sad feeling can be as ephemeral as the weather makes the foggy positivity of Gemini highlight "Chinatown" all the more fitting. "I want someone/ Somewhere", WN's Jack Tatum yearns, before noting during the chorus, "We're not happy 'til we're running away". Tatum doesn't sound like he's necessarily moping around, though; instead, his low-register voice pulses and throbs like a heartbeat, giving "Chinatown" a bright, in-the-moment, bliss-touched glow.

[from Gemini; out now on Captured Tracks]