“Cream and Bastards Rise” by Harvey Danger

"Cream and Bastards Rise" comes from Little by Little..., the third and final Harvey Danger album, which the band put out on its own Phonographic Records in September 2005. Sean Nelson sings it, and he wrote it with bassist Aaron Huffman and Jeff Lin, who handles both guitar and piano here. Steve Fisk and John Goodmanson produced, engineered and mixed.

The record steered the band away from the Weezer-and-Pavement guitar crunch of their early days toward songs built on the piano, and it was the only one they made with Michael Welke behind the kit in place of original drummer Evan Sult. The title alone tells you Nelson's sardonic streak survived the makeover intact.

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