Presumably the cover is an illustration depicting the back of Towner
the four-piece band onstage playing to a crowd of five outraged or indifferent
people. It took me a while though – normally the back of the band isn’t used in
press photos (or, in this case, images). Towner, which I’m guessing is short
for “out-of-towner” (because, you know, the life of a touring band), play it
fairly straight, copping mid-1990s indie/college rock that’s easy on the ears
and just fine for any dorm room situation. The singer has a sort of
speaky-version Black-Francis-meets-Peter-Garrett-from-Midnight-Oil voice. Not
hard to enjoy. Dunno why that dude in the tie is angrily covering his ears or
that one girl is yawning – there’s nothing really offensively loud, obnoxious,
or boring. The texty girl gets a pass – everybody texts at shows.
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