Charts are feel-good music and are a damn great time. The band has been a staple in the Portland music scene for ten years with a discography that ranges from the lo-fi sounds of a Tascam four-track, the precision of hi-fi studio to the warm saturation of 2-inch tape. Like studio musicians covering The Supremes in the style of The Velvet Underground. Their sound has evolved over the years, but the love and jubilation for rock and roll has remained.
A reductionist view of Pool Boys’ music could claim four words: Loud guitars; pretty harmonies. The band thrives in dualities - they live in the space where soft and sensitive gives way to grit and ire. Melodic guitar hooks and oft-spacey, oft-grungy textures are thoroughly supported by weaving bass lines and nonstandard harmonies.