The few, the proud, the marine research

What do you get for having a stupid band name? An equally stupid reference to the US marines' tagline, which is about the furthest thing from the English tweelings of today's track. So it goes.

I have to say I never had a period of serious immersion in this kind of tidy/catchy indie rock. Bands like this never really clustered together on my stereo, and yet they consistently crop up one at a time along my listening landscape—Belle & Sebastian during the fall semester of my junior year, the Field Mice three springs ago, Marine Research during the very cold winter of 2002. I'm not sure why I continue to have a soft spot for this kind of stuff when I'm always so compelled to caricature it. Catchiness conquers all, I suppose.

Marine Research - Venn Diagram