Description
After three full-length albums, several EPs, a split CD and a retrospective double album, the Jetstreams / Three Wheels EP became the final recording (for a long time) by the American indie pop band The Lassie Foundation, independently released by the band in October 2008. This Limited Edition CD-EP features “Under The Moon”, the No. 1 LA song of 2008.
The Lassie Foundation is a lot like that old flame you never quite give up on: You hear the name and you smile; a chance encounter on the street quickens your pulse; lasting romance seems only another full-length album away.
In my mind – excuse me for being less dispassionate than usual here, because my fandom over the years has become friendship – the Lassies are one of the most overlooked southern California bands of the past decade. Maybe their niche was too small, or their labels lacked clout, or their output too erratic. But their music found a sweet spot — the perfect marriage of West Coast pop and distortion-coated, bass-thick Britpop. If Ride covered the Beach Boys, or vice versa.
Now the Lassie Foundation has re-emerged with three songs, its first new material since 2006, available as an EP. Like many on-again, off-again projects, the Lassies worked around geography, day jobs, families and other band commitments to write the new songs. The trio of Jeff Schroeder (now the guitarist in the Smashing Pumpkins), guitarist Eric Campuzano and Wayne Everett laid the groundwork, and bassist Jason71 (who fronts Eskimohunter and tours as Jason Falkner’s bassist) and drummer Joel Patterson (Sky Parade) flushed out the songs.
There’s the simmering psychedelia of «Jetstreams», the slow-mo colorburst of «Three Wheels» and urgent guitar assault of «Under the Moon», all 7:20 of it, and maybe the exclamation point in their catalog. In fact, Schroeder came up with the outline for «Jetstreams» in the Smashing Pumpkins dressing room while on tour. [Kevin Bronson, Buzzbands.la, October 2008]
CD-EP tracklist:
01. Jetstreams – 4:49
02. Three Wheels – 4:28
03. Under the Moon – 7:20
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