THE CORNER LAUGHERS

Poppy Seeds

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Even when they’re not referencing landmarks in their hometown of San Francisco, the Corner Laughers make it known they’re a California band. Singer and ukulele player Karla Kane’s melodies hit like injections of vitamin D. If she’s slightly more pragmatic and sarcastic than the twirling flower children of the ’60s, she nonetheless nails the shiny-happy likes of “Twice the Luck” while owning each “do-doodly-do” scat vocal. Fooled by neither Golden State utopianism—“The San Andreas motion takes a person out of sleep,” goes the ska-tinged paisley-pop standout “Bells of El Camino”—nor idealized notions of love, these indie rockers still find beauty in the everyday.