Today’s Random Album of the Day is Real Close Ones from The Ms. The Ms are Indie Rock or Pop. They also get a neo-psychedelic tag on Rate Your Music which they seem to throw around rather loosely. Though it does kind of fit here at times. So maybe it’s always apt.

Overall, this is more of a mellow indie pop album with some upbeat moments. It’s pretty good or good-ish. I don’t think it’ll ever be at the top of my rotation but good is good. I’ll say this – these guys definitely like the Beatles. The influence is obvious. My wife points out the Grateful Dead influence. That makes sense. They are so close to being really good is what we both said but we concluded they were just good-ish. I certainly understand if someone likes them a lot. I won’t judge yah!

Rating: 8.0

Favorite Track(s): “Like a Cloud” has a good poppy anthemic feel to it. “Days in the Sun” makes me think they like the Beatles but it’s a solid song. Actually that’s a thing through the album. “Impossible View” is good. “Papers” is solid. “Breakfast Score” is maybe the best song on the album. “Big Sound” is a contender though. The album finishes strong.

Keep or Trash: Keep. Mainly because I like to keep the digital music for the vinyl that I have and I believe I have this on vinyl.