Patience Please promises that their new Parallel Plots EP is going to be the best 14 minutes you’ve had all day. I can’t say for sure that I agree with them, as the day is exceptionally young. I can assure you, however, that if you enjoy tight, energetic twee-influenced power pop with lyrics that are more literary than cute, you’ll at least enjoy the quarter of an hour you spend with the record greatly.

Patience Please is a four-piece from the Pacific Northwest, but… uh, aren’t all the good bands from that area these days? I swear, you could send some craptastic band like, say, Nickelback up there for a few months of forced exile and I’m willing to be they’d improve at least a teensy bit. Oh wait, that fucktard from Everclear is from Portland, so nevermind. Regardless, the bandmates known as Patience Please are not fucktards from what I can deduce. Nope, they like their pop served upbeat and coated with guitar tones reminiscent of Bunnygrunt and The Weakerthans, a “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” electric organ and joyous backing vocals by the Twice As Cool Choir (who sound really, really happy to be there, in a good way).

Parallel Plots is a perfect introduction to a really good pop band. You get five songs in under fifteen minutes… all building up to the cleverly literary lyrics of “Unpublished”, which works best while chair-dancing. Just enough to make you press the play button again and start it all over again. It’s good stuff, folks.

Patience Please - Unpublished.mp3
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