It’s been way too long since the release of any new music by the Pastels. I’m sure they’ve been busy with trivial stuff like real life but that’s cold comfort for fans like me who have been feeling like there’s a giant hole in their lives that only a new Pastels record can fill. Thankfully the group has two (!) new projects ready for release. The first is an album made with Japanese twee-folk duo Tenniscoats called Two Sunsets; “Vivid Youth” is taken from the album and if it’s any indication of the quality of the rest of the record, it’s going to be really, really good.

The song was written by Katrina and Gerry Love (from Teenage Fanclub), and it has a lovely, drifting kind of melody that sounds like lazy summer mixed with a little bit of quickly approaching autumn. Hey! Just like the video….