Album Of The Week: Bleeding Rainbow Yeah Right

In 2010, back when they were still a duo called Reading Rainbow, the Philadelphia band Bleeding Rainbow released Prism Eyes, exactly the sort of very good indie rock album that gets overlooked all the damn time. There wasn't any grand narrative to Reading Rainbow; they were just too people who played very good straight-ahead garage rock with calm confidence and hooks to burn. The guitars jangled and shimmied and pounded, and Sarah Everton sugary-catchy sweet nothings in an absolutely bored-all-time-time voice. It was awesome. But things have changed for the band since then. They've doubled their ranks, adding a full-time rhythm section, and they've changed their name to something that's less of a litigation-magnet. (They're saying they changed it because Carrie Brownstein made fun of it, but I've checked, and LeVar Burton definitely did not host a 1980s children's reading-is-fun show called Bleeding Rainbow, so maybe that also had something to do with the change.) And now they've made Yeah Right, a very different album but one that seems just as likely to be overlooked. Too bad! It's awesome too!