Miniature Tigers make Summer of the Cow feel like a weird little comeback season

Miniature Tigers’ Summer of the Cow arrives with the kind of title that makes you stop scrolling for a second, which is already half the battle in modern indie music. Released on 1 June, the Los Angeles band’s new album sits in the zone of alternative, indie pop and indie rock, but the bigger appeal is the atmosphere. There is a playful looseness here that suggests a band not trying to sound algorithmically correct. Instead, Summer of the Cow feels like a strange warm-weather transmission from a group still interested in melody, character and odd corners. That matters. Indie pop is at its best when it is catchy without becoming plastic, and when the weirdness feels built into the songwriting rather than pasted on top as branding. This is the sort of release that reminds you why cult bands keep finding new listeners: because personality still travels.

Source: https://miniaturetigers.bandcamp.com/album/summer-of-the-cow