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PANTS YELL!

ALISON STATTON

By DAVID DAY

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Pants Yell! is a perfectly formed indie rock Easter egg. Take three scruffy-headed Boston boys and bundle them up in Tim Shea's loose, live sound. Get a few local luminaries to incubate it (namely Ponies in the Surf and Life Partners' Greg Kelley) and find some visual artist with credibility (Dig's own Martin Pavlinic) to decorate it. Couple of months later—crick, crack—out pops a chirping, wide-eyed pop project. Crowd favorites "Reject, Reject" and "Evan's Way" sound even better on record (the latter with a brilliant organ accompaniment), while the title track is just cute as can be. Our own indie heroes, Pants Yell! (always with the exclamation point? Kiss my butt Microsoft AutoCorrect!) are building an international fanbase that could see them couch-surfing from Iceland to Japan and back again. For the record, Ms. Statton was the lead singer of revered obscuro-pop icons Young Marble Giants. Perfect.

GENRE | BIRDBATH POP

VERDICT | OVER EASY

RELEASE | 12.4.07

LABEL | SOFT ABUSE

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