Princeton didn't want their second album to be as "twee-sounding
" as 2009's Cocoon of Love, and so Remembrance of Things To Come dodges the jangly, indie, polo-shirt clad sensibility of the Californian crew's sunny debut disc.
Instead, there's the disco influence of Jesse Kivel's Kisses side-project, and glorious orchestral arrangements. The lead single, and title-track, shows this smooth sonic development; guitars entirely swapped out for mallet percussion, multi-layered string parts, polyrhythms, and pianos.
"I'll be waiting," a Kivel twin (Matt?) carols in sweet falsetto, "she won't be waiting so long, I know." Here, too, lyrics are sanded away from indie wordiness into simple refrain; voice just another instrument in a heady, complex mix. The title of this title track is plenty evocative, but at most the jam itself gently flirts with that feeling where anticipation takes on a life of its own.
Princeton, "Remembrance of Things to Come"
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