The Sunday Times named "Forget Me Not" as one of their top songs of the year. Here's what they had to say...

"Just when you're despairing even of alt-rock to do anything new or interesting with the familiar old materials, along come this band from Austin, Texas, with a cry from the heart, a piano line that reminds you it's a percussion instrument, and harmonies you'd be happy to both kill and die for. That's the way to do it. "

We're on the short list with St. Vincent who released one of our favorite records this year. Check her our if you haven't already!

See the full list here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3099806.ece

Happy New Year!

Tacks, the Boy Disaster

Here's what the Sunday Times in England had to say about Oh, Beatrice:

"Fronted by Evan Jacobs, a founding member of Midlake, this Austin, Texas, quartet arrive with a debut that is both as light as a feather and as complex as a tapestry. Oh, Beatrice may call to mind the definitive expression of highbrow cultural absurdity – when Martin Creed's switching lights won the Turner prize, an art critic, invited to respond to the accusation that the work was insubstantial, replied that that may be so, but it was "substantially insubstantial" – yet it contains detailing of such richness and subtlety, the songs continue to reveal themselves even after multiple listening. This could, of course, be simply so much nerdishness, but Tacks manage, on Blue Nile/Beach Boys/Wilco-leaning tracks such as Forget Me Not and Paris, to build from bare bones – circular guitar figures, piano parts either sonorous or Glassian, Hammond organ, minimal percussion, massed harmonies – something lightweight, certainly, but heavily so."

Check out Evan's mug on this video from the NY Times' coverage of CMJ. Sweet!

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=ac664280c8efbe8085e384f227b7919fe43ea195