The Starlight Mints hail from Norman, OK. Kind of similar to The Flaming Lips whom share state roots with the Starlight Mints. They make great jangly pop music and keep it pretty quirky. At heart, this fivesome is a pop band. They could fit on anything from 80's top forty to 90's modern rock to 21st century indie rock. They are tight, effective, fun, and dancey even. Lots of drum loops and funky keyboards and the lead singer sounds as nervous as David Byrne or Modest Mouse.
I have not heard their earlier albums, but Change Remains is such an enjoyable pop grab bag of pure music joy, it tickles the ears and the mind into wanting to mine that back catalog. In a single album you get a little reggae dancehall, beatlesque pop, funk, disco and all the stuff from all the decades that made real good pop music so nice.
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