For any fan of the dream pop of Local Natives and Caveman, Modern Merchant brings the best of those bands’ harmonic bliss to a carefully composed new EP, ‘For The Fields.’
From weighty topics of marriage (‘Marry Me Annie’), to the gentle crashing of the waves in the partially intimate/partially epic ‘Necessary Evil,’ the band’s sweeping harmonies and dreamy guitar lines cast a meditative spell that will linger for hours after a listen. The band takes a simple approach to tugging at the heartstrings, and is all the more effective at it for playing it that way. See them live when they play Bowery Electric on July 17. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
This band submitted their music for coverage here. We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!