Careers

Ever since songs from Beverly’s exceptional shoegaze-pop debut album Careers began emerging online, the band has been billed as the latest project of former Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts/Dum Dum Girls member Frankie Rose. And while it’s true that Rose is all over the album, she’s playing sidekick to Drew Citron, a former member of Rose’s backing band and NYC synthpop group Avan Lava. Thoughout Careers’ half-hour run time, Citron demonstrates a canny understanding of how to construct classically fuzzed-out indie pop songs — and pop songs in general, for that matter. The album ranges from impossibly sweet (“Honey Do“) to briskness that verges on chilling (“Planet Birthday“) to groovy post-Bangles surf-rock (“You Can’t Get It Right“), each track sounding like some long-lost treasure. It’s an excellent opening shot from a songwriter who’s finally getting a deserved spotlight.

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