As a jock in a nerd’s body I feel upstate New York’s Quarterbacks represent every part of me. They are three nerds who write one-minute twee-punk songs about getting butterflies around girls playing in a basement band and — be still my heart — watching sports highlights. Basically Quarterbacks were tailor made for me.
Releasing two cassettes on Double Whammy Quarterbacks have cherry-picked the best tunes and written a few new ones for their eponymous debut album proper. Considering their awesomeness these 19 songs in 23 minutes basically act as a “best of” comp.
Singer-songwriter Dean Engle is an unabashed love fool longingly writing about his first kiss with a girl who moves away (“Center”) trying to win over a girl by watching the Knicks game (“Knicks”) and serenading a girl named Lauren whose heart was “fumbled” by some Dallas cowboys (“Lauren”).
Were this 2007 and I was still planning my wedding Quarterbacks would have been the only musical option I would have considered. But seeing as it’s 2015 and my big day has long past I’ll just try and live vicariously through these 23 perfect minutes.
