The Little Heroes

ROCK / INDIE POP
Artist: The Little Heroes
Album: Thank You
Tracks: "Say I'll Be Gone," "Thank You"
Street Date: November 11, 2009
Label: Wednesday Records


Certain thoughts and (harsh) generalizations come to mind when thinking of the city in which The Little Heroes are based. Santa Barbara... where the sun shines bright, college kids pound down BL w/Limes like there's no tomorrow, and SoCal bros run a muck in their Rainbow flip flops, cargo shorts, and wife beaters, yeah?

Somehow members of the Little Heroes were able to avoid that ever so appealing Jack-Johnson-esque path down their musical life - possibly for the better. In past months they've been getting positive reviews from music outlets such as Billboard, Space City Rock, Amplifier Magazine, PopMatters, Allmusic, Lost at Sea, and the Red Alert.

In the title track "Thank You," the band interweaves Lombardo's mellow vocals with dulcet melodies and choruses to create a light-hearted and catchy tune, similar to say... "Boston" by Augustana but with more edginess and testosterone and way less piano, falsetto, and bottled up/passive drama. (Moving to Boston probably won't help your situation at all, what were you thinking?!) Okay, maybe not so similar then.

I had guessed
we'd always be friends and
all the plans that we made
again and again
I had guessed
we'd always be friends
you're an angel and your words
cause little earthquakes
all the world stops everyday when you wake
and we fall down... down at your feet
to say goodnight

The lyrics are extremely multi-faceted. He explains that he and the girl (OR guy!) have made plans together, exchange glances, and read books - all that relationship junk... but we get the sense that the sequence of events doesn't seem to amount to anything romantically significant as he suggests with the continuous series of doubt with phrases such as "I had guessed," "the books we read could not explain our thoughts," "all the glances exchanged wouldn't suggest to the bare remains," etc. Torn and forlorn.

So either the guy has to ignore her weird/dangerous earthquake-making quirks because he loves her OR he can just ditch her because she's psycho and the payoff sucks. Just do what you have to do Little Heroes! We're here to clean up the spill.

The album comes out on Wednesday! Check out their MySpace for more deets.