Sacramento, California-located indie rock outfit
Best Move are unpacking their debut record, the
Mirror Image Twins EP, today, May 7th, via
Park The Van.
Joseph Davancens, and
Fernando Oliva formed Best Move in 2019. Anaya and Davancens, the primary songwriters of the group, have spent the better part of the past decade playing a wide variety of music under various banners.
Best Move take direction from two sources, the first being the cinematic song stylings of sardonic yet unfettered, quasi-confessional 1960s and ’70s troubadours like Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson, and Harry Nilsson. The band’s name is even from the latter’s song of the same).
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