Super American - "Tequila Sunrise"

Three years can add up. It’s how long since the seeds for Super American’s debut album, Tequila Sunrise, were first planted. In that time, the Buffalo indie rockers—duo Matt Cox and Pat Feeley—catalogued their twin romantic fables with a lyrical charm weaving between character study and thorny self-awareness. And like the album title suggests, there’s a sunny disposition shot through with clouds. It’s no wonder Cox and Feeley have written a pop-rock record for punk clubs, with drum machines and shout-along choruses marking the division between polish and pure emotion. Tequila Sunrise is, at its core, a spectacle for twenty-something identities: the ones built sweating over read receipts, taking ride shares to band practice, neglecting proper self-care for a night on the couch. The loves threaded throughout the LP are complicated and anxious, where something as simple as a shared sweatshirt (like on “Commitment Issues”) becomes a chance to air dirty laundry and appeal for better emot