Well this is certainly long. I feel slightly bad to open with this, but it’s by far the main thing that stands out to me about Fruit Tea by the Wild Moccasins. This Houston band have produced a song layered in so much indiepop goodness that it feels wrong to pick it up over something so trivial as the length. For the record, I should point out that “long” here is actually about five minutes. Now I’m not opposed to songs of this length, but Fruit Tea feels like the perfect three minute pop song stretched two minutes past it’s prime. Which is a shame as up until that point it’s lovely. Male-female vocals play off of each other and occasionally combine, words are shouted out seemingly at random, and it all leads into a rousing chorus. But no matter how much I try to not let it, my mind starts to wander off befor…
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