Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom

I recently heard “Gladhander” as one of KCRW’s Songs of the Day, and that was all it took for me to scour the interwebs for Stripmall Architecture, the husband-wife duo Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom from San Francisco. Of their two current albums, Object03 is the older but both it and the latest, We Were Flying Kites, have 2009 release dates.

Similar to Beach House and Emily Haynes/Metric but far more adventuresome than Metric’s current album, the Cosebooms combine quirky electronica (”And Then Crazy Kills the Fun” and “Subtle Movements” from Object03), rock (”What’s Wrong With the Kids Today?”), a folkish sensibility (”Beauty Is Suffering”) and cool electronic/ambient (”The Droplet Sounds”) from We Were Flying Kites. My big favorites are “Stop Thief” and “We Were Flying Kites” and its dub version that appears on Object03.

Stream everything at their Bandcamp site, and name your price to download We Were Flying Kites.

Stripmall Architecture - Gladhander from We Were Flying Kites (2009)

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