#bare wires

8/23/25.

The other day as a friend of mine and I were driving up to Chico and listening to The Wind-Ups she said, "What's going on with Billy Tibbals?" Fair question. Living in Northern California, it's hard to keep tabs on young Tibbals.

But the other day, while perusing Bandcamp, I came across this 7" from a Bay Area band named Dancer (not the Glasgow band) who immediately made me think of the kind of music Billy Tibbals has been crafting for the past few years.

Dancer were active in the early 2010s to the early 2020s. They only released 7"s. I immediately also thought of Warm Soda/Matthew Melton. One member of Dancer (Omar Hernandez) was also in Bare Wires with Melton. He was also in Apache with R.E. Seraphin. So there is some quality power pop DNA in Dancer.

Back when music videos meant something...

Bare Wires - Never Gonna Change

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