ExcusesThe Morning Benders · 2010

pitchfork

“The Morning Benders hail from Berkeley, but the affable indie-pop found on their 2008 debut, Talking Through Tin Cans, sometimes brought to mind the bright Southwestern landscape that first nurtured the Shins. The coming follow-up, Big Echo, adds Grizzly Bear multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Chris Taylor to the mix, adding the kind of sunlit harmonizing and wooly arrangements recently favored”