Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin...

I won't even try to claim this as my discovery because I totallly got hipped to it by the excellent site Catbird Seat. Here's a band with a name that rivals The Prayers And Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers. While the Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is one of the more awkward band names to spew out when impressing friends with your knowledge of obscure indie rock, the songs are not in the least awkward. Au contrarie (sp? I ain't french) what they're good at are brief power pop songs sliced into convenient 3 and 4 minute bits. SSLYBY hail from Springfield, Missouri and like to give their songs clever names like "Pangea" (likening a love affair to the original super continent automatically makes it good as far as I'm concerned). The album is Broom and can ordered off their website.

Power pop goodness on a Tuesday. It's the little things.

from Broom:

House Fire

from their EP Gwyn and Grace:

Tired

We Can Win Missouri