Afternoon Naps are a six piece twee sunshine pop band from Cleveland,OH.Living by the frigid banks of Lake Erie,all they know is sweater weather, cursed sports teams, and an uninspired rock museum There music combine the picturesque simplicity of Felt and Free Design,with the "California sunshine pop myth" of the 1960's.They include: Tom Dechristofaro, Leia Hohenfeld, Stephanie Griffin, Mike Allan, Ben Gmetro, and Augustus Payne. Their debut album, "Sunbeamed" was released August 2007(It clocks in at a whopping 21 minutes!) It was Produced by Tim Gerak of The Six Parts Seven producing, mixing, and recording.They Have a new cd ep Snowday that will be released by Cloudberry Records.




Discography "Sunbeamed" (2007) Debut Album
"Snowday" (2007) Cloudberry Records


References -[2]From Indie MP3 Article The Afternoon Naps are a six piece based in Cleveland, Ohio. Sunbeamed is their début album and consists of eight slabs of sunny indie pop some of which I doubt will be bettered this year. It's got everything an indie pop fan would want. Handclaps, boy girl vocals, a few la la las' and trumpets which go up against the tuneful melodies that are inspired from 1960's surf and bubblegum pop to 1980's jangle pop Britain. Some of the tracks are as near to indie pop perfection as you could wish for. Orange Paw and Postcard are meltingly divine whilst the instrumentals in the shape of Argyle Spring and the title track could almost be described as jangle pop chillout. They even sound like Orange Juice remixed by New Order on the summer version of Winter Olympics!


Influences

Felt,Beach Boys, Teenage Fanclub, The Yellow Balloon, Curt Boettcher, the Free Design, Sarah Records, Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound, Motown, Stax Records, St. Etienne, The Velvet Underground, The Four Tops, Rocketship, 60's Bubblegum, My Bloody Valentine, C86, The Wedding Present, The Cowsills, Galaxie 500, The Association, Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood, Heavenly, Black Tambourine, The Left Banke, Slowdive, The Fun And Games, The Millenium, The Fifth Dimension, The Shangri-Las, Electric Light Orchestra, Love, The United States Of America, Harper's Bazaar, 1910 Fruitgum Company Shoegaze,Factory Records, The Archies,Twee Pop,Indie Pop Orange Juice,Josef K,The Pastels,Postcard Records,The Field Mice,The Shop Assistants,Camera Obscura,The June Brides

External Links

Afternoon Naps Myspace Page [1379]

Indie Mp3 Naps Article [1380]

Cleveland Free Times Naps Article [1381]

Naps YouTube Live Video [1382]

Omahype Naps Sunbeamed Review [1383]

Cleveland Plain Dealer Naps Article [1384]