In their Facebook blog, NYC band Teen Commendements appreciates the fact that the folks at CMJ described their music as "Synth Pop to the extreme." Uhm, what’s with that electric guitar and that… wooden stick in the picture then? Well, I guess appearences can be misleading, because (besides the vocals) everything sounds drastically synthetic in these guys’ recordings, and very much 80s influenced too – by the way, I wonder if one day we’ll be able to say that an electronic pop band is influenced by music from a decade other than that one. To their credit though, they keep that era’s cheesiness under control. This sounds like a fun band to witness live, you can party with them at Mercury Lounge on November 11 with Lazer Cake and HITS – two bands we booked for our CMJ 2101 show.
