Picture courtesy of The Stranger.

Throw Me the Statue’s Moonbeams album is being re-released on Secretly Canadian next week. It’s a really terrific album, and the Seattle band is gearing up for a nationwide tour to promote it. These dates are posted on the band’s MySpace, but a Portland date? Nowhere to be found.

What gives, TMTS? We love you dearly, and we are just a couple short hours away. You played here last November, opening for Jens Lekman; I wasn’t at that show. Did something bad happen? Were we rude to you? Please forgive us and come back!

In the meantime, we shall console ourselves with the album. Like many great pop records, I find that each track sounds slightly different from all the others, while never veering too far from the standard guitar-drums-synth indie pop template. It’s as satisfying as anything you’re likely to find. Let me put it like this: Throw Me the Statue is like a chocolate chip cookie. You may have had one before, but that doesn’t mean they’re anything less than delicious. You wouldn’t turn down a chocolate chip cookie, would you?

MP3:
Throw Me The Statue - Yucatan Gold
Throw Me The Statue - Lolita