WXPN’s The Key points us to Philly-via-San-Fan-via-Lancaster‘s The Lightning Bug Situation, which brings me back to seventh grade and my English teacher’s Mark Twain words construction-papered on the bulletin board: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Well, The Lightning Bug Situation have found the right sounds, at least for my well-documented need for gentle music on Monday mornings. Their first Philly album, Call, is full of minimal electronic/folkpop pairings that evoke Iron and Wine, José González, and the softer side of Yo La Tengo. Confidential to Lightning Bug: we welcome your return, but the lyric “running through the city with the iPod in your hand” better be about Philly. Too gorgeous a song to be about the land of Giants. East-Coast-vs-West-Coast beef!
The Lightning Bug Situation, “For Nancy, with a Bruised Heart” [Buy]
