Emily Sprague, Brooklyn Florist
Swatches of color dab the canvas, but otherwise the band’s aesthetic is cream and cardamom – everything unpretentious. It’s a strange waltz, walking through the embers of old memories. “I Was” evokes tones and textures from Death Cab for Cutie’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes, an album that changed the climate of indie music in 2000. Not necessarily a throwback, Florist lives somewhere between the dreams of a pastoral present and the phantom limbs of a not-so-distant past.
