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Field School - "Jennifer Valentine" from the 2022 album When Summer Comes on Bobo Integral / Small Craft Advisory.

It can be rare for a new band to immediately conjure a very specific location, scene, time, and sound but pressing play on Field School\\u2019s debut album When Summer Comes is like traveling to Olympia in the early \\u201890s, despite its 2022 release. The project of Charles Bert of Seattle band Math and Physics Club, Field School was born out of necessity during the pandemic. Without the ability to play with his bandmates, Bert leaned on himself to create and record full songs on his own. Conjuring the twee pop sounds K Records became synonymous with during that era, the perhaps-not-coincidentally Olympia-based artist makes sentimental lo-fi jangle pop with all the sugary sweetness but none of the calories.

Our Song of the Day, \\u201cJennifer Valentine,\\u201d is a highlight off the record and hones in on the saccharine wistfulness. \\u201cJennifer Valentine, I wrote your name a thousand times/I wonder if you remember mine,\\u201d Bert sings with sincerity while a simple drum beat keeps tempo and guitars effervescently jangle. \\u201cJennifer Valentine, I\'ll never change my mind /Cross my heart and hope to die.\\u201d If that\\u2019s not twee, I don\\u2019t know what is.

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