A Weekend With Jane in Bloomington, MN

Pale Sunday
is from Brazil, and trades in pleasant, guitar-based
indie pop
. The vocals are sensitive, the guitars strummed politely, the drums lightly tippy-tapped (probably by machines), the synths set on weepy orchestra. The four songs on the group's debut EP breeze past on a cloud of pleasant nostalgia for bands like
the Chesterfields
,
the Field Mice
, and
East Village
-- bands that jangled nicely and harmonized and wore sweaters. The members of
probably don't wear a lot of sweaters, but their music does. Even when they rock out a little on the single's best track, the catchy and most
Sarah Records
-sounding -- no, make that most
Sunday Records
-sounding --
"The Girl With the Sunny Smile,"
it is done in such a way that no one's beverage of choice is likely to be upset, much less toppled. If you like your
by the book and
Charlie Brown
sweet,
is a band to keep your eyes open for. ~ Tim Sendra