For Comet Gain, the 2020s have been a decade of consolidation so far. Their recent output on Tapete is a combination of new material and the wider distribution of their older albums, none of which ever got the fair shake they should have from their contemporary audience. Of those, City Fallen Leaves may be the most crucial in their discography, as it separates and clearly identifies two eras of the band. While prior albums found Comet Gain indulging in equal parts twee melodicism and indie-rock fuzz & scuzz, City Fallen Leaves marks where they began to leave the scuzz behind. Yet, despite cleaning up their act, the band don’t completely abandon the depth that their songwriting always had.
Anyone familiar with later-period Comet Gain…

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