Thinking, Dreaming Scheming is the full-length debut album from New Jersey jangle pop quartet Lightheaded that combines one side of new songs alongside the first vinyl pressing of the band's debut Cassette Good Good Great! Lightheaded are Cynthia Rittenbach and Stephen Stec they recorded Bi-Coastally with Gary Olson, Alicia Vanden Heuvel, Fred Thomas and members of Starcleaner reunion and Trinket.
The A-Side opens with the sparse indiepop single Same Drop a love song that uses traditional 60's girl group backing rhythms and vocals along with some delightful trumpet to make the claims that they need to try to keep their cool around you.
The Lindens, The Lindens, The Lindens! Are not being used to make canes or other bad things, this has a rather bucolic feeling whimsical indie pop and vocal harmonies.
Me And Amelia Fletcher is in love with Amelia from all the bands and government think tanks, everything she stands for and has achieved, Amelia is the object of there desires, so much so they persuaded Amelia to sign them to her label Skepwax so they can stalk her in plain sight.
The View From Your Room is a reverb laden vision of loveliness, with odd bird call effects, you gaze at the trees and the birds fluttering about. Crash Landing Of The Clod isn't about a Trumpian golfing disaster, but more late-night imprecations to love and lust among the wallflowers and piles of anoraks, backed by lo-fi girl group sweetness.
The B-Side opens with Mercury Girl is about the sort of girl who has things written about her in the Mercury, all her mad adventures that allow you to stalk her from afar, hoping one day to turn these wistful thoughts into a friendships or a whirlwind romance, you want to be in the eye of the storm, cruising through town beside her in that old Mercury she drives.
Orange Creamsicle Head is a slow description of how and why you ended up with that orange creamsicle decorating your head, if you don't get why, it happened you are beyond redemption in this sweetly deceptive tune with some quite interesting instrumentation. The Garden is trying to entice you to pay a visit to the Garden with them, nudge, nudge get the hint yet, go on take a walk with them in a classical jangle pop way.
Their cover of Patty Girl takes the Gary & The Hornets 60's classic to totally preferable places to where Big Star took it, they still lust after her, but it feels sweeter and more romantic and not at all coercive, just persuasive, I now need to dig out my K records single of Alex Chilton and Teenage Fanclub's version.
Love Is Overrated is all sweet girl group loveliness with a pulsing organ, she pours her heart out to the joys of singlehood and playing the field even further, sounding like a slowed down stripped to the bone Shangri La's song. With strings signalling your rebirth and the joy of taking a train to sweet home Noo Joisey without you.
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