His first album since 2013’s covers collection Excitement at Your Feet and his first album of original material since 2011, prolific power pop veteran Tommy Keene is back with a new full length called Laugh in the Dark. One of the standout tracks is the roaring “Last of the Twilight Girls”, which plays right into Keene’s wheelhouse: jangly pop music juxtaposed with robust garage rock. If you’re not familiar with Keene’s music, this will serve as a wonderful introduction. If you are, you’ll be grinning from ear to ear.
“The object of this number has made his/her proverbial bed and must now regrettably lie in it,” Keene says about the song. “Early reports have intimated that this tune is reminiscent of Big Star, true but I was probably more fixated on a Clarence White-era Byrds tune called ‘Tiffany Queen’.”
Laugh in the Dark Will be released 4 September on Second Motion Records.