All Your Summer Songs

by Saturday Looks Good to Me

All Your Summer Songs cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 March 2003
  • Label: Polyvinyl
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 2.64/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fred Thomas leads the expansive indie collective through a lo-fi homage to 1960s Motown and Brill Building songwriting. Driven by upbeat melodies and densely layered, Phil Spector-esque instrumentation, the record balances nostalgic sonic pastiches with earnest, bittersweet lyricism. The resulting tape-hiss-laden aesthetic became a defining characteristic of mid-2000s indie pop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, wall-of-sound

Tracklist

  1. [Untitled]
  2. Meet Me By The Water
  3. Underwater Heartbeat
  4. Ambulance
  5. Light Bulb Heart
  6. The Sun Doesn't Want To Shine (Invisible Harmony)
  7. Caught
  8. All Our Summer Songs (Break Up)
  9. No Good WIth Secrets (Secrets)
  10. Alcohol
  11. Can't Ever Sleep
  12. You Work All Weekend (Weekend)
  13. Typing (Typewriter)
  14. Ultimate Stars (Starbucks)
  15. Last Hour

Credits

  • Saturday Looks Good to Me - primary artist
  • Ben Bracken - acoustic guitar
  • Anna Steinhoff - cello
  • Zach Wallace - double bass
  • Brett Lyman - drums, piano, organ
  • Grace Thorson - electric bass
  • Aidan Dysart - electric piano
  • Candi Wilson - flute

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