Taste Test: Burning Pictures collect memories like sparkling ‘Seaglass’
The folk-rock band issue their first official recorded single.
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If memories took on a physical form, they’d be dusty and worn trinkets we’ve collected that we keep locked in a treasure trove by our bed. They come flooding back when we least expect it, too, often triggered by sights, sounds, smells. A new discovery, Santa Cruz folk-rock band Burning Pictures get lost in a cloudburst of nostalgic-tinted memories and images of a former lover. On their languid new song “Seaglass,” slathered with harmonica and a drum’s tender gallop, Joe Kaplow, Bobcat Rob Armenti, Michael Whalen and Elliott Kay let the past drown them with a tangy strawberry zest. “Cruising through the spring / The spring of our love,” frontman Kaplow paints with his creamy tenor. While the quartet swell with longing for yesteryear, they know better than to get too caught up in what was ⏤ instead, the memory serves as a reminder to cherish every single moment going forward.
“Seaglass” is the band’s first official recorded single, coming on the heels of a live video for “5AM.”
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