This Santa Clara, California group's somewhat unusual name actually works as a fitting metaphor for their melodic lo-fi indie pop. A "contrail" -- or "condensation trail" -- is that streak of water vapor a plane leaves behind it on its way across the sky. It's an oddly lovely man-made scar on nature's beauty. Now, please bear with this analogy. The Contrail's feedbacky, tinny, bedroom production similarly mars its songs' beautiful melodies, and the result is something similarly appealing: a muddy blur of sound with a thin, wistful voice skating across the top.

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