Listening to… Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

This is a massive selection of unreleased tracks by a band you might be surprised to learn is a decade old. Has indie rock changed so little in all that time? The gentle strums, the tentative and endearing vocals, the light-fingered production…

There’s a gorgeous demo version of “What’ll We Do,” and so many songs that seem casual and unobtrusive that you realize this can’t be a pose—they know exactly what they’re doing, found their ideal sound early on and have somehow continued on without gaining arrogance or annoying studio-technique tendencies.