Lone Star by marlovers

Guitar shimmer. Bittersweet harmony work. The new Marlovers track may sound like it’s cut from disparate ‘90s and early- aughts bits of cloth, but the quirky-sweet execution remains theirs and theirs alone.

The band cites Teenage Fanclub, Alvvays, and The New Pornographers as reference points, and faint shadows of all those artists are palpable in the track’s guitar shimmer and bittersweet harmony work. To my mind, though, it sounds like it’s cut from disparate ‘90s and early-aughts bits of cloth, melding a Shonen Knife playfulness with a Cranberries brand of earnestness.

“Lone Star,” ultimately, is indie-pop meeting power-pop halfway, with all the saccharine ache and jangly uplift that equation implies.