Blog: Beats Per Minute

Fans of last year’s self-titled debut album from Smith Westerns might want to forget most of what they know about the band’s sound. Smith Westerns was just a blueprint for what was to come on their follow up Dye It Blonde . The poppy melodies and enthusiastic guitars are still there, but the fuzzy lo-fi production is gone and in its place is a much grander sound. What they’ve created from that blueprint is a shrine to all their favorite rock music of decades past, most notably the Beatles, Teenage Fanclub and glam rock. Just [...]