“Ah, the late ‘90s. That dreamy kaleidoscope of jewel-toned hues, baggy cargo pants, and a Sixpence None the Richer CD popped in your Sony Walkman on a warm afternoon. Those days are but a bucket-hat memory, but the sounds? They remain if you can find just the right band. BACKHOUSE, baby – melodic, hook-driven, airy. Arguably, this five-piece also sounds a lot like the early 2000s (similar feelings permeate those six some-odd years), and “Sycamore Trees” could have served as the theme music for The OC (see: Phantom Planet’s “California”). That’s to say, the track – poetic, intimate, pining – transports you back to life’s early romances: carefree and all-consuming, pregnant with the unspoken absence of forever. The one you still think about to this day. ”
