Cities and Coasts’ Postcards from the Great Lakes brilliantly explores love—the beauty of it, the difficulties we face, the concern of a new love being foreshadowed by past relationships, heartbreak—while asserting an iconic pop sound all its own, laced with lush harmonies and beachy guitars that hearken easily to those of The Beach Boys. It’s near impossible to believe that such an album came from the Midwest, much less a city with such temperamental weather as Cleveland, Ohio, but it […]