A certain band from Sweden (not that it even bares mentioning in this post-Myspace music scene) has been getting my attention this dreary fall season. Evoking, or perhaps mimicking, 80s alt-ballad powerhoueses like The Jesus And Mary Chain, Echo And The Bunnymen, Joy Division, and The Smiths, The Mary Onettes make you melt with the kind of misplaced nostalgia that young music fans perfect.
For example, Darklands, the first Jesus And Mary Chain album to archive commercial success, was released in 1987, the year I was born. Does it make sense for me to have nostalgia for the year I was born? No, of course not, but my senseless identification with a time I barely experienced is exactly the kind exotic, temporally distorted pop cultural connection that music fans are drawn to. I have no doubt that music kids, in the next few years, will begin discovering a certain band that was around just as they were coming into the world, during the early 90s: Nirvana. For now, young pop/rock musicians are completly sick of Nirvana, which we all grew up hearing on commercial radio
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