Molly Hanmer & The Midnight Tokers - Stuck in a Daydream

Stuck in a Daydream, the debut album from Los Angeles-based quartet Molly Hanmer & The Midnight Tokers, might be labeled Americana, and accurately so, but throughout are hints of blues, rock and roll, folk, psychedelia, even bossa nova. Unlike albums where every track sounds the same, Daydream might variously make you stamp your boots on the floorboards and clap along, weep, pull out your journal and express bottled up feelings, and straight up party. Mindy McCall of No Depression describes the album as, “part of a recent trend within indie rock that fuses the ethics of punk rock and DIY with the sonic experimentalism of psychedelia and stripped down song structures of folk and traditional blues.”  A musician who first picked up a guitar at age 8, and whose harmonica-playing would do her hero Bob Dylan proud, Molly Hanmer stands in stark contrast with many of her peers. She eschews the elaborate make-up and ultra-sexy outfits typical for female singer-songwriters of the day, al