Brown Recluse are a pop band from Philadelphia that make ample use of tambourines, harmonies and hazy sunshine.
Brown Recluse was founded in early 2006 as a recording project between singer and guitarist Tim Meskers and one-time drummer and producer Mark Saddlemire. By the time the Phillies had fallen a dozen games out of the running that summer, the band had inflated faster than a water balloon at a 10-year old’s birthday party.
Honing their chops in the clubs through the remainder of the year, they released their first EP, Black Sunday, in 2007. Since that time, the band has paired back to a trio and released a handful of sides (including the January 2011 release Panoptic Mirror Gaze).
“Impressions of a City Morning” comes from the middle portion of their catalog, an album called Evening Tapestry that was released on Slumberland in 2009. About the album, the band say it’s “their most ambitious collection of songs to date,” pointing to their juxtaposition of “eerie, minor-key psychedelia with their melancholic take on sunshine pop.”
Must be we’ve scared too many monsters out from under beds over the years ‘cuz we’re not hearing anything too eerie, though we acknowledge the band’s penchant for sounds minor and psychedelic.
Give a listen, give ‘em some love if you’re feeling it.
