Mike Krol makes the kind of distorted pop-rock that’s so sunny it’s liable to burn you till your skin begins to peel. He’s as much a student of the sort of magic that allows punk fury and pop sweetness to coexist as he is a practitioner of that form, which is why the songs on his fourth album, January’s Power Chords (Merge), feel familiar at first listen.…
Mike Krol makes the kind of distorted pop-rock that’s so sunny it’s liable to burn you till your skin begins to peel. He’s as much a student of the sort of magic that allows punk fury and pop sweetness to coexist as he is a practitioner of that form, which is why the songs on his fourth album, January’s Power Chords (Merge), feel familiar at first listen.…