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"Simple, addictive. Pure California Music." -- Oakland Tribune "Nice, melodic, free-flowing progressive pop. The Botticellis are a California-based quintet whose music recalls 1960s pop but is flavored and threaded with twenty-first century sounds and ideas." -- BabySue "Look for the Big Star influence ... airtight hooks and dark, cheeky lyrics." -- Noise Pop The Botticellis have an obsession with pop music, melodic songwriting, and the cinematic sounds of yesteryear, but they're not lost in some oldies Neverland. On Old Home Movies, the quintet gives us ten luminous snapshots of sun-bleached memories. The vision is uniquely Californian, and while their music basks in the warmth of the Golden State as personified by the Beach Boys, it's also steeped in the shadows and queasy uncertainty of Raymond Chandler. The band produced the album with the help of Anton Patzner (Bright Eyes who plays violin on "Who Are You Now"; Matt Cunitz, whose museum of vintage keyboards colors the music; and Jason Quever (Papercuts), who plays drums on "Flashlight" and helped capture the band's balmy sound on analog tape. Old Home Movies promises to bring burnished, finely crafted pop to the people, filling their heads with vibrant memories and California daydreams.