Folkicana is a genre now, we’ve all been blessed (thanks to Riley Moore’s “Pancakes and M&Ms”)

Remember Sunday pancakes? Warm mornings on the front porch? Okay, perhaps that’s a pretty stereotypical American childhood summer, so to our readers abroad- welcome to our nostalgia! Riley Moore’s "Pancakes and M&Ms" is a real diamond in the rough when it comes to country/folk songs about growing up. Somehow, Moore has managed to make new an old concept- and it’s not necessarily in the arrangement, which is folksy and nicely executed, but it’s definitely in the lyrics. "Watch the sunrise / smell the pancakes / giving Robert Redford handshakes / never thought that they’d be green with M&M." Simple, yet mesmerizing. I might’ve teared up. Keep your eyes out for Moore’s debut album and release show at the Radio Cafe on June 29th. –Geena Kloeppel