The Posies - Solid States review: smells like fragrant power-pop

Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 21:00

Tony Clayton-Lea

Thirty years is a long time to be playing plangent power-pop, but Washington band The Posies have been applying the plectrums with persistence.

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