Kevin Bronson on August 27th, 2013

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I arrive on your digital doorstep once again to sing the praises of the Spires, whose slack, jangling guitar pop continues to seduce the same way the great U.K. indie bands of the ’80s and ’90s did. Singer-guitarist Jason Bays and gang (bassist Catie Kindred, guitar Bryan Russell, drummer Brook Dalton) have been plugging away up the coast in Ventura for several years, several albums and several EPs, highlighted by 2005’s “Written In a Year With a Lot of Rain,” 2009’s “A Way of Seeing,” and 2011’s “Forever City Chorus” – all beautiful exercises lo-fi shoegazing. The Spires arrived this month with their latest full-length “Eternal Yeah,” as perfect a title as there ever was. It’s one of those album that makes a case for albums – over the course of 11 tracks, “Eternal Yeah’s” insistent hum and genteel melodies induce a 40-minute woozy high. Joel Jerome (Babies on Acid/Dios) even produced a couple of tracks. So, yeah, “Eternal Yeah.” And while my memory is still working, this.

||| Stream: “Moths,” “Flames (You and I)” (and the whole album on Bandcamp)

||| Previously: “Waves,” “Orange Yellow”

||| Postscript: And the band that tried to plunder their name changed theirs.

Photo by Sasha Green