Meen Streets - Playboys of the Western World

This blog used to specialize in euphoric, vaguely retro electropop, but acts that revel in such sounds don't surprise me positively so often anymore. Many budding electronic artists seem to be entirely engulfed with gimmicky bloops those days - sometimes entirely forgetting to write, ahem, good songs. But these are still some ways to stand above the crowd. What about...meaningful lyrics maybe?

Enter British-Australian singer from Los Angeles calling himself Meen Streets. Charlie Cosser, who debuted in March with Ice Cold, proudly wears 80s influences on his sleeve, but Playboys of the Western World's attitude took me back to the golden era of bubblegum punk (or rather power pop marketed as pop-punk) at the dawn of the 00s. It's a good thing, because those guys with permafrost in their hair knew how to write catchy tunes and you need a catchy song to spread the message. In this case, we have an ode to unusually proud and independent girl - something still relatively rarely sung by the male vocalist. The song was penned by Cosser and his producer Jarvis Anderson. Recently Meen Streets came back to the ice topic with Christmas jam Tears (Always Fall on the Holidays) - something that would surely warm you up this winter.

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