Fromthing Somethat, the tongue-twister title of legendary L.A. dreampop/indiepop foursome, The Black Watch's nineteenth LP, comes from a mistake front man John Andrew Fredrick made whilst singing a line from the song ""The Lonesome Death of Mary Hansen."" Cleverly self-effacing album titles have been a part of this serious band's aesthetic ever since 2011's well-received Led Zeppelin Five (along with such titles as ""Jiggery-Pokery"", ""After the Gold Room"", ""The Gospel According To John"", and ""Magic Johnson""). This record hops, skips, and jumps from dreamy-floaty (the opening number, ""St Fair Isle Sweater"") to dance-y (the almost-disco of ""The Nothing That Is"") to majestic (""All I Know (Is That the Moon is Beautiful)"" to dark/ominous (""Drip, Drip, Drip"") and back again to dreamlike (""For Always Then To Keep"" and the soaring closing lullaby ""I'm Not Hung Up""). And yet it's all of a piece-a record that perhaps sounds like every 60's, 80's, or 90's guitar band you've ever loved and, well, unmistakably a The Black Watch record.
