Princeton
Princeton is: Matt Kivel, Jesse Kivel, Ben Usen, David Kitz.
Los Angeles-based Princeton is releasing their debut record, Cocoon of Love, September 29th on Kanine Records. Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, the group now lives in an aging green house on a hillside in the Eagle Rock district of LA where their album was recorded.
About Cocoon of Love:
Among the many detrimental effects that love has on the mind, one of the more subtle is the way it litters the memory with a batch of misplaced associations – places, figures, products and (especially) music that, through chance, become invested with deep personal significance. This detritus of love is scattered all over Princeton’s, Cocoon of Love, right down to its title, taken from a chance line on a long-ago-cancelled children’s show. Stacks of herbal tea, a glow-in-the-dark monument, paperback writers, the Wall Street Journal, a departing Mercedes, The Metamorphosis, a series of Cambridge-commissioned paintings, video arcades, graffiti, and a cyclist on the Autobahn all figure prominently into Princeton’s musical sketches.
Princeton is twin brothers Jesse & Matt Kivel, Ben Usen and David Kitz. In anticipation and support of their debut album, they’ll head out on tour with Ra Ra Riot and other touring acts through the rest of the year. All dates posted here.
- MyOldKentuckyBlog
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- Spin
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- Stereogum
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- The Tripwire
“Keenly written melodic songs…Perfect pop gems for you to lounge with during the summer” The Tripwire
- All Music
“Spilling over with sweet, memorable pop hooks and informed, refined multi-instrumental flourishes”
- Village Voice
“The song of the summer is so Calypso Gold”
