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Since time immemorial, or at least since the eighties, every one of those charming, interchangeable teen movies has distinguished itself by closing with an equally charming but similarly interchangeable garage pop-rock song. Bright and jangly, these sonic after-dinner mints were calibrated to go down easy, recapping and reflecting on the themes of the films: 'love conquers all,' 'be yourself,' 'don't have sex because you'll get pregnant and die.'
But with the oughts' decline in net teen movie production, somebody had to pick up the slack. Sorority Noise are doing their part, writing music just as bright and jangly, but rather less thematically didactic: their albums relate a series of increasingly depressing vignettes — breakups, fallings-out, goings-on. They maintain the silhouette of their joyous counterparts, but gutted, drained and oppressively ordinary.
But with the oughts' decline in net teen movie production, somebody had to pick up the slack. Sorority Noise are doing their part, writing music just as bright and jangly, but rather less thematically didactic: their albums relate a series of increasingly depressing vignettes — breakups, fallings-out, goings-on. They maintain the silhouette of their joyous counterparts, but gutted, drained and oppressively ordinary.