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Album: Avi Buffalo (2010)
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  • Both this Long Beach, California-based indie pop band and its frontman go under the guise of Avi Buffalo. The singer-guitarist, real name Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, is joined by keyboardist Rebecca Coleman, bassist Arin Fazio and drummer Sheridan Riley.
  • This is the first single from Avi Buffalo's self-titled debut album, which was released on April 27, 2010. Zahner-Isenberg told BBC DJ Steve Lamacq about the song on his Radio 2 show. He said: "This song I wrote a couple of years ago now. At the time I'd been listening to a band called Beechwood Sparks and the Beach Boys and I was sitting in a friend's living room playing an acoustic guitar doing the chords and sing and we just put it together a very simple verse chorus song. The themes are… I don't know, moods and stuff and adolescent things."

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