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Garage rockers the Willowz hail from Disneyland's Anaheim, California, home, so it's maybe not surprising that they got a fairy tale-style break from the movies: Early last year, when founders Richie James Follin and Jessica Reynoza were still in their teens, French auteur Michel Gondry put their raucous, White Stripes-ish rock on the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. For the band's sprawling, ambitious second studio album, Talk in Circles, the SoCal rockers (now a foursome) look about thirty miles west for inspiration -- to Hawthorne, hometown of the Beach Boys and birthplace of Brian Wilson's kitchen-sink pop experimentalism. From the fuzzed-out bubblegum duet "Making Certain" to the blistering rush of "Cons and Tricks," the Willowz are the only thing in the O.C. cooler than Walt Disney's cryogenic chamber.
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