The West Coat Pop Art Experimental Band are one of the great lost bands of Hollywood's Mondo Mod era. If you like your ethereal jangle pop with an extra teaspoon of weird, these guys are for you. Transparent Day is a composite of everything I want in my pop music, the British Invasion filtered through the Sunset Strip at its shimmering highpoint. The harpsichord in the bridge adds a nice baroque flavor to things, and the harmonies are about as dreamy as you can get outside of the Mamas and the Papas. But it's really the guitars, ringing out so cleanly and so clearly, that'll have you coming back for more. I wish this kind of stuff came in a bottle because then every day would be transparent, and what a delightful world we'd be living in...
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