Blog: Buzz Bands

Radar Bros. , "The Illustrated Garden" (Merge) — "I want you, I need you / Right now, my life's on a cereal box," Jim Putnam sings on "Quarry," and you're not sure whether he's entranced in a moment of morning reverie or fretting over his bio. It's probably not the latter — Putnam has been making literate, engaging indie-pop since Silver Lake was a neighborhood you'd think twice to walk through. "The Illustrated Garden," Radar Bros.' sixth album and fourth for Merge, finds its sylvan nucleus in plants, animals and, yes, even "People." Putnam's understated vocal melodies and lovingly [...]

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