Tune In Saturdays: Let's Go Sailing

Let's Go Sailing, the Los Angeles five-piece from the mind of Shana Levy, knows how to do two things well.

1) Make Belle and Sebastian-like gloomy pop music.

2) Name-drop.

From the website:

In November of 2002, Shana Levy left indie pop outfit Irving to pursue Let's Go Sailing. She asked friends Tanya Haden (Haden Triplets), Nikki Monninger (Silversun Pickups), Brent Turner (Irving) and Byron Reynolds (Possum Dixon) to work on an album's worth of material and soon enough they began recording a demo with Chris Chandler (Flaming Lips/Modest Mouse/Elliott Smith) and Rod Cervera (The Rentals/Weezer). The recording process quickly gained momentum and, with the help of Chris and Jim Putnam (Radar Bros.), Shana decided to make a hi-fi record independently. With lots of tweaking and a little tlc from Ben Mumphrey (Frank Black/The Pixies), the record was finally finished!!!!        

Those are some damn good names to associate yourself with, so I'll refrain from judgment.

Head over to the MySpace page and check out 4 songs from the new album, The Chaos in Order.  It's full of little gems that make as much out of the hooks as they do the quiet moments.  And with friends like those, it probably won't take long for Shana and the bunch to make a splash or two in the coming months...