Long Slow Dance could have existed at any point in the last 32 years or so. Unfortunately, it didn't exist until 2012, so prepare to hear way too much about it from your friends who are too young to have ever actually paid for music.

The perennially approachable Fresh & Onlys have never made "difficult" music, favoring a stripe of reverb-heavy psych-pop not far removed from the work of such Bay Area colleagues as Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall. All previous edges are glossed away on Long Slow Dance, which is probably already playing at an Urban Outfitters near you. College radio might be dying, especially locally, but Long Slow Dance aims to unite two dominant strains of 80s college radio time-filler, with U.S. guitar jangle buried under the atmospheric echo of Thatcher-era Britain.

Laden with melancholy and too upfront with the vocals, which sit prominently on top of everything else and sound like one long, dejected sigh, Long Slow Dance works intermittently (the catchy "20 Days and 20 Nights" could've been on Sarah Records) but largely passes by unnoticed. Congratulations, psych-rock revival of the late aughts: You finally have your own Icicle Works.