I used to get surprised when strangers would call me “sir.” You know, sales clerks, bus drivers, people asking you for directions; I would chalk it up to being older. These days, I kind of expect being called “sir,” and not due to some petty respect thing. It’s just been happening for so long now, there’s no more shock to it.

Which is why I count on bands like The Botticellis to surprise me. I need bands like these to come straight out of nowhere and take me while my guard is down. Especially with a punchy, wonderful pop song like Old Home Movies, whose glimmering surf-music throb is coated with an unseasy sheen, giving it a complete, mature texture.

So mature, actually, that if I were to meet The Botticellis, I would most likely call them “sir.”

MP3: The Boticellis - Old Home Movies

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