The Pomegranates have risen to number 7 on the CMJ Top 200 Chart, in front of the likes of Marnie Stern, Weezer, Walkmen, Best Coast, Glasser, Mark Ronsen and the Business INT’L, Matt and Kim, Blonde Redhead, Antony and the Johnsons, Clinic, Avey Tare, and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. This news also happens to coincide with “Pomegranates Awareness Month.” November is really shaping up to be the month for the Pomegranates!
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Their Latest Album One of Us Is Available Now. Check Out What Everyone’s Been Saying:
“The sounds of Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, Deerhunter, and MGMT–all in one song? It could be a Pratt Institute student’s senior thesis or a Girl Talk mash-up. But it’s the propulsive title track off these exuberant Cincinnati kids’ third album–and the sonic orgy actually works. All 13 kaleidoscopic tracks, particularly standout “Anywhere You Go,” a supercollider of rhythmic groove, guitar, and Wurlitzer organ, distill a decade-plus of indie and alt rock into a sparking art-pop swell. Spazzing out, Joey Cook cries: “I really like you!” The feeling’s mutual.”
“Like the rest of their new release, One of Us, ‘50s’ puts a beat into your step and you drift off into a swooning world of guitar strings, and mastered mixing.”
“Think the Flaming Lips’ alternate-universe psych-pop, Broken Social Scene’s abstraction or a lucid, funk-free Of Montreal…”
POMEGRANATES ON THE ROAD!
11/06 Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge
11/07 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
11/08 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
11/09 Missoula, MT – Badlander
11/10 Spokane, WA – Empyrean Coffee
11/11 Seattle, Wa – Sunset Tavern
11/12 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
11/14 Santa Cruz, CA – The Crepe Place
11/15 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
11/16 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater
11/17 San Diego, CA – The Casbah
11/18 Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room
11/19 El Paso, TX – Black Market
11/20 Austin, TX – Mohawk
11/21 Denton, TX – Hailey’s
11/22 Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone
11/24 Cincinnati, OH – Southgate House
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