Stream: Tele Novella, ‘Heavy Balloon’

Kevin Bronson on August 2nd, 2016

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Austin’s Tele Novella aren’t so much a band as a contagion. The good kind. The quartet — Natalie Ribbons (ex-Agent Ribbons), Jason Chronis and Matt Simon (both ex-Voxtrot) and Sarah La Puerta — can be spacey or sharp-tongued, earnest or droll, scary or playful, nocturnal or bright-eyed, all the while fashioning earworms that touch on the dusty recesses of your record collection. For the record, Tele Novella’s stated influences include Os Mutantes, Aislers Set, Velvet Underground, the Bachs and Belle and Sebastian, which unless you’re some kind of indie wonk doesn’t give you a crystal-clear picture of the thing they call “macabre-pop.” Whatever it is, it won us over in 10 minutes or less two years ago at SXSW, an indomitable spirit set to music. Tele Novella’s 2015 EP “Cosmic Dial Tone” was released on L.A.’s own Lolipop Records, and the new single “Heavy Balloon” was inspired by the VU’s “Caroline Says.” It’s the first taste of Tele Novella’s forthcoming full-length “House of Souls,” due Sept. 23 on Yellow Year Records.

||| Stream: “Heavy Balloon”