Radio Compass: “California”

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Written By Michael Gutierrez

Straight outta Salem! Home of the Hope Fest! Radio Compass is a dream pop outfit with cotton candy vocals, licorice guitar hooks, and sugar plum snare hits. The dream of the dream pop is clearly taking place in sunny California, the namesake of our highlighted track. Read it and weep as the weather grows colder in the brisk and brusque Northeast. But, hey, we’ve got all that leaf peepin’ energy! And less earthquakes…

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