[troutman]

Vancouver indie-pop band, The Salteens, Grey Eyes:

http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/The-Salteens

It’s a testament to the better angels of global culture that a bunch of music geeks in Vancouver can grow up to make worldly, magisterial, boldly contoured pop together. And it’s a testament to the better angels of The Salteens that, after a decade as a band and seven years after establishing indie label-of-love Boompa Records, they’ve crafted an album defined by both precision and heart.

Grey Eyes nods towards sophisticated ’60s European and American pop constructionists (Gainsbourg, Bacharach, the other Scott Walker) and brass-tacks workmanlike hit-makers of yore (Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building), while acknowledging transformative pop heirs from the ’70s and ’80s (Godley & Crème, The Smiths).

http://salteens.com/