Rarely does Paisley Shirt break out from the cassette format to commit an album to vinyl, but this is now the second time they've given Hits the wax treatment, having released their previous long player in 2021. Someone's clearly a fan and they're making it a lot easier for you to be one, too. That last record, Cielo Nublado, represented a minor break from the Bay Area jangle that mostly characterises the label, a little more Portland artpunk suss in its delivery that spoke to a kinship with bands like Mope Grooves, The World et al. World of Dirt doesn't entirely abandon that approach as much as split the difference between the two approaches, incorporating a little more indiepop feyness into their semi-taut power-trio set up like a miniature Breeders. Not exactly on the money, but Hits seem to land somewhere between Electrelane and Vital Idles, the suggestion of part Brighton/part Glasgow DNA in itself a fitting reflection of the San Fran/Portland binary. Might just be that the centre of the universe is wherever you find yourself.
Hits - World of Dirt
£24.00
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