The Mayflies USA

After a 20&#43; year hiatus, <a href="spotify:artist:2NEBqZaq6kThQTNs0W0zbs" data-name="The Mayflies USA">The Mayflies USA</a> make a triumphant return with their album <a href="spotify:album:3DyROMvUWYvBYnEMGdCZNo" data-name="Kickless Kids">Kickless Kids</a>. The band has not lost any of the ingredients that gained them their initial notoriety - the glorious harmonies, the ear worm choruses, and the edgy guitars are all present on this new batch of songs. The entire set plays more like a &#34;best of&#34; collection, the songs are that strong.

“<a href="spotify:album:3DyROMvUWYvBYnEMGdCZNo" data-name="Kickless Kids">Kickless Kids</a> is a fantastic collection of power pop, crammed with memorable choruses, beautiful melodies, and infectious jangly guitars. You’d have to go back to R.E.M. to find a Southern band that can play power pop with such an effortless style.” - Glide Magazine

<a href="spotify:artist:2NEBqZaq6kThQTNs0W0zbs" data-name="The Mayflies USA">The Mayflies USA</a> arrived in the post-indie-boom mid-90&#39;s Chapel Hill scene as an anomaly, playing tuneful, ragged rock once memorably described in Spin Magazine as &#34;r-o-c-k like they don&#39;t make anymore... dreaming of <a href="spotify:artist:4WPY0N74T3KUja57xMQTZ3" data-name="The Replacements">The Replacements</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1MXwwmS2JpmsHZhdMeOL2s" data-name="Pure Prairie League">Pure Prairie League</a> and proud of it.&#34; After <a href="spotify:artist:11AOVmm3kRD1dVsNhcpGMA" data-name="The Mayflies USA">The Mayflies USA</a> EP in 1997, they released their first full-length, <a href="spotify:album:6XyB2K0nbxOoRrou7aq4EC" data-name="Summertown">Summertown</a>, in early 1999, which was produced by North Carolina alt-pop legend <a href="spotify:artist:1i7YYagcULgnW5Qilsto1d" data-name="Chris Stamey">Chris Stamey</a>. <a href="spotify:album:4pqga1UDyEoh9qeEXwO95O" data-name="The Pity List">The Pity List</a> followed in fall 2000. The band&#39;s third album, <a href="spotify:album:7j0DBX0lnE27uoIxjNE7g8" data-name="Walking in a Straight Line">Walking in a Straight Line</a>, was recorded in Chicago with Keith Cleversley (<a href="spotify:artist:16eRpMNXSQ15wuJoeqguaB" data-name="The Flaming Lips">The Flaming Lips</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:77oD8X9qLXZhpbCjv53l5n" data-name="Mercury Rev">Mercury Rev</a>) and released in 2002.