Christie Front Drive’s Eric Richter returns to his roots with Golden City. After his varied departures with Antarctica and The 101, Richter embraces his old, well-worn style. Early strains of (sunny) emo are mixed with the power pop of his last band, The 101, and there you have it. A few of these songs sound like Static Prevails-era Jimmy Eat World while the guitar lick in “Gray” is straight out of the Lucero repertoire…go figure. It’s a solid listen for all us non-hipsters out there. You can download all four songs of Golden City’s debut EP via their Myspace. The EP was recorded by Rival Schools’ guitarist Ian Love. Werd.
Golden City “Gray”
seeing as static prevails era jimmy was attempting to be a pop version of CFD, and that golden city is doing the same thing, i guess that makes sense.
Yeah, I know those two bands were tight back in the day and you can definitely see even more parallels here.