J Scott Kunkel
Pollinators bring their lo-fi synergy to Williamson Magnetic Recording Company Nov. 18.
There’s a ton of heart and lo-fi sensibility jammed into the four songs on Self Addressed Envelope, the debut EP released by Pollinators back in April.
The chorus guitarist/vocalist Tom Teslik uses to buoy “Used To Without You”— “I do not necessarily miss you,” he croons to an ex-flame who still lives on his street — seems culled from the wry/dry intersection of ’90s-era Marcy Playground and the Lemonheads. But the range of Teslik’s voice more closely echoes the Front Bottoms’ Brian Sella.
Teslik and his bandmates, bassist Cole Haman and drummer Matt Magnusson, have been working in the indie-pop trenches for more than a dozen years, and the synergy shows. The sparkling, upbeat strum on “Steve,” a tune about far less sunny topics (friendship in a time of mental illness and incarceration), is a textbook example of the Pollinators’ pop-rock M.O.
The EP is designed as an appetizer for a full-length, and the trio plans to debut a hefty chunk of new material Nov. 18 at the Williamson Magnetic Recording Company. Now’s your chance to say you were there on the ground floor.
