Year in Pop: 2016

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Introducing Portland's bed. & their new EP from Bug Hunt; press photo.

Introducing Portland’s bed. & their new EP from Bug Hunt; press photo.

Introducing bed. with a listen to their Klickitat EP (available now via Bug Hunt) that basks in all those bedroom & living room penned pop gems that resonate with crystallized moments that reverberate with sentimental meaning for an eternity. The opening number “The Rule” establishes the ruling medium that guides a degree of the inspiration at work here, while “Fremm” that advises against waiting until the daybreak of morning for partaking in new experiences, as “Wayward” ventures to paths unknown & exciting, “Boys” hits the nostalgic/sentimentality switches, right before ending with the brilliant ballad to none other than “Billy Joel” that includes such witty refrains like, “I’ll be here until I die, as long as Leonard Cohen is alive.” The band shared with us the following on the process of making the Klickitat EP:

These five songs were written at home in our old apartment and recorded in three different home studios in Portland and Northern California over the course of two years. While they have become a bit old hat for us, they definitely make up an important road map of the beginning and initial growth of our little band over that time period. In other words, Klickitat makes up the bottom row of the proverbial human pyramid that is our band.