Everyday Balloons

Everyday Balloons, by Portland's a Weather is here. Two years after the critically acclaimed Cove, they have released another collection of scrupulously crafted indie-rock songs, rife with intricate vocal and instrumental beauty. It is an album of fleeting moments, words and sounds, as elevated by glimpses of euphoric unison as it is grounded in studied specificity. This is the sound of four people in a room. It is the sound of one person in a basement. This is the sound of the sacred, humble and hushed and it is the sound of the commonplace, raucous and celebratory.