Stove. — Eat./If You're Listening, I'm Sorry for Everything Peppered with playful sax solos and 21st-century zingers lamenting the state of things these days, the 13 tracks on two releases by ukulele-wielding songwriters Stove. make for an all-too-brief joyride through Bay area neighborhoods — in all, both EPs clock in at a combined 25 minutes. The “IHOP on 19 & Curlew” and even the Publix at Boot Ranch Plaza get immortalized in beautiful detail, and“Delete Your Fucking Snapchat” should be required listening, but buried in all the bright strumming is a diary’s worth of confusion, anger and hurt wrapped up inside delicate songs that are trying to solve the world’s problems while dealing with a sitcom’s worth of interpersonal bullshit on the side. (Records DK)
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This article appears in Dec 21-28, 2017.
