Thrift Bakery’s fifth album “Hard and Sweet” was released Friday, September 10, 2021, on all international streaming services.
The band takes sound quality seriously and the production is crisp, bright and ringing.
The opening track is “Water’s Edge,” an uptempo guitar-driven song that brings urgency back to indie pop. An MP3 is attached.
A link to a downloadable WAV file is here.   
The 11-track release combines indie and synth pop with bursts of rap, sprinkling its tunefulness with just the right amount of tension and dissonance.  
Thrift Bakery is edgy, funny and melodic, mixing elements as diverse moody dream pop and guitar-infused hip hop.
Terrie Cloth has a natural singing voice like Greta Kline and Sidney Gish that deposits the songs between edgy and sunny. Dlux brings the energy of The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, but his moody delivery is a full octave lower. 
Unsettled by recent events but finding solace in outdoor rambles, Thrift Bakery evokes indie stalwarts like Wye Oak and Big Thief in expanding sonic boundaries. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Hair maintains the space within the songs, which are hook-filled and hummable but push experimental limits in the brief pop format. Terrie’s bass lines keep the tempo on point, funky and swinging. 
Guitarist Tater Totts anchors the group to its jangle pop roots of Winston-Salem, N.C., but his intricate and diverse stylings undergird the melodic turns of urban music found in several Thrift Bakery songs. 
All songs are FCC-compliant.

Thrift Bakery - Small Things - Hard And Sweet

Thrift Bakery - Nature Song - Hard And Sweet

March 27, 2020
Summary: Indie pop group Thrift Bakery social distancing for 30 years releases new album “Transcendent” 
The fourth long-playing album by Thrift Bakery called “Transcendent” was released in the midst of Covid-19 on many distribution channels.
The 12-track album features the rap song “Wipe It Away,” recorded long before the pandemic.
Overall, the album has more jangle guitar pop than in the past, now that guitarist Tater Totts has played with the group consistently for several years. The tracks “Science Writer,” and “Elizabeth Holmes” display the group’s roots in the Winston-Salem, N.C., pop scene of the mid-1980s and examine modern science, romance and ethics. 
A video of “Elizabeth Holmes” is at https://youtu.be/p7qKxP1RKWI
As always Thrift Bakery keeps its other foot in rap and funk with “Wipe It Away” and “Taken by a Pro. “ The latter song was featured on the Bay Area podcast GRM Presents.
Transcendent is melodic, quirky indie pop with dashes of hip hop.
Track Listing: 
1.	Amy Adams: Upbeat power pop – a band’s 3 minute story – similar to Elvis Costello
2.	Payday: Hypnotic rap like 21 Pilots or Red Hot Chili Peppers
3.	Taken By a Pro – modern crossover funk in the style of Prince
4.	Elizabeth Holmes: Guitar-driven jangle w/female vocal like Liz Phair, Japanese Breakfast 
5.	Science Writer: Hook-laden guitar pop like XTC, KT Tunstall about infatuation. Best track
6.	Pools: Moody sung emo tune about lost love and longing like Beck and Weezer
7.	No Better than Average: Guitar rock w/ female chorus like Interpol, The Killers
8.	Knucklehead Central: If Nick Cave and Pet Shops boys did a MeToo-era revenge ballad
9.	Wipe It Away: A COVID 19/Coronavirus rap song similar to Chance The Rapper
10.	Running Is Good as Falling: A rapid, trippy, imaginative adventure like Steely Dan
11.	Money on Fire: Funky rock song – think of The Arcade Fire meets LCD Soundsytem 
12.	I Love America: Anthemic guitar rock with melody like Radiohead, Neil Young
NO TRACK CONTAINS OBSCENE, FOUL OR SUGGESTIVE LANGUAGE

Thrift Bakery - Wipe It Away - Transcendent

Thrift Bakery - Payday - Transcendent

Thrift Bakery - I Love America - Transcendent

When you’re an indie band without a paid corporate marketing machine, your songs can show up anywhere for reasons you don’t know. 
Elizabeth Holmes is one of our most streamed songs. https://open.spotify.com/track/358IwN2pMOeBSOpm3a0uvA?si=39bf8ffbc47443d0
And most of the streams come from another platform, from Poland. 
It is also our most watched video. https://youtu.be/gCWwUvYeBUY
Science Writer is another pop song from the perspective of confused males. 
Both plunge deep into Thrift Bakery's jangle pop roots in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Thrift Bakery - Elizabeth Holmes - Transcendent

Thrift Bakery - Amy Adams- Transcendent

Uptempo guitar-driven story song in the Mexican-American folk tradition. Long version of a single from Thrift Bakery's September 2021 album "Hard & Sweet"

Sending All My Love To You

If you want summer to come so bad you can taste it and will dance alone, this is your jam. 
Thrift Bakery's new single "Cicada," a dance track to get you dreaming of summer, streams worldwide Friday January 14, 2022.
The song is the first release by the band since last year's "Hard & Sweet" album.
The socially distanced indie-pop group whose members rarely see each are working on more new music for release this year, much of it for the dance floor.
"Cicada" is three minutes of a propulsive, infectious rhythm. Thrift Bakery combines indie pop with funk, and the track has a light feel, with Terrie Cloth's glissando voice floating over 127 BPM.

Cicada

Uptempo pop-funk at 121 BPM male vocal about what happens when the world starts spinning backwards.

Why Bother to Travel

If Roxy Music and They Might Be Giants wrote a song together and Frankie Cosmos sung lead is one way to describe this 105 BPM ballad. It has a Simply Red feel.

You Cant Steal The Book Of Love

If Bob Dylan and The Band recorded a song about the sinking of a Russian warship in The Basement Tapes period. If Gogol Bordello and The Beautiful South were also there. Uptempo

Thrift Bakery - The Moskva

People get tired of adulting.
If you are of a certain age, this will remind you of Squeeze and Elvis Costello. 
If you are somewhat younger, the Postal Service, Vampire Weekend and Death Cab for Cutie.
Younger still, maybe My Chemical Romance or Panic! at the Disco.

Dont Sugarcoat It

A remix of the kickoff track of TB's 2023 album "Forty Years in a Deep Ravine," in honor of the 13-year and 17-year broods of Cicada hitting the USA this summer. Danceable indiepop with female vocal.

Cicada (double brood remix 2024)

Indie pop-rock group began in 1985 in North Carolina with heavy rap and funk influences. Molted to Loco Domingo in 2023. See https://soundcloud.com/locodomingo

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