There’s something wonderfully slightly off to the tone of “California Stars” by King Ropes. It sounds like King Missile tried to write a typical country song but gave up on that idea and went for something more in the realm of Americana pop. Then failed at that stylistic mistake and simply wrote something that sounds more like a chamber pop band making post-punk in the style of Camper Van Beethoven. The languid pace gives the song an introspective and wistful quality while the finely accented and brooding bass provide a foundation over which the mutely bemused, somewhat disaffected vocals could opine over foolish misadventures, misguided wanderlust and a sense that in spite of perhaps unknowingly modest, low rent dreams the world could end at any moment and we could have done ourselves the favor of aspiring for better for ourselves years ago. This single is from Gravity and Friction which comes out on July 26 and if the rest of the record is as strange and as off angle from typical indie rock and pop of late it’s bound to be worth more than one spin.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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