Seattle’s Tomten have been creating glorious baroque pop since their formation in 2010. On their newest album Viva Draconia, released September 28th, they continue to give us a serving of pop perfection, but with added new-wave and psych flavors. Viva Draconia opens with “Balance of Terror”, a title which sounds quite scary, but is actually a beautiful, Beatle-eque composition, heavy on the piano with a chorus evocative of a church choir and featuring some surprising synth sounds throughout its bridge. Songs like “St.Martin’s Summer”, “Celadon Song” and “Gogmagog” have the same pop sensibility, but are all also incredibly well developed tracks with loads going on in them- the use…
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