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The music of Brooklyn’s Ashwin Prasanna has been circulating for awhile, now landing as the debut of his jangly soft 70’s band The Angles. I basically fell in love with Prasanna’s self-titled debut The Angles — an old romantic’s comforting melodic jangle with shades of 70’s soft rock.

Prasanna is a meticulous manager of his sound, playing most instruments and self-producing. His gorgeous indie pop debut is a grower! Here are 3 reasons you need to download The Angles.

The band The Angles: Indie pop perfection

How could there be a more delicate rendering of indie pop than “Moon,” the leadoff cut from the band The Angles? The guitar line’s blissful jangle introduces Prasanna’s deft vocals, sweet as Stuart Murdoch. On the chorus, he sings, “I wish you the mooooon,” followed by Tree Palmedo’s exquisite, too-short trumpet line to bring the song home with a bit of chamber pop flourish.

I’m hypnotized by the look in your eye.
I got no appetite.
I’m gonna get my teenage kicks tomorrow.

When I realized
With all my might,
Contorting everything,
I’m gonna leave behind that shtick tomorrow.

I see your face outta nowhere.
I’m an angry guy.
I go outside and call friends.
I wanna take you underground tomorrow.

The band The Angles: The soft 70’s beckon!

The intimacy of songs like “Emulsion” capture Prasanna’s gentle vocals enveloped in his bedroom pop arrangements. We also get to hear how the band The Angles capture that 70’s aesthetic, opening with organ, Prasanna’s falsetto and a tender guitar. Instead of an overbaked solo, we get a walkway worthy of Steely Dan.

The organ, guitar and cooing background vocals lend the melody a spacy soft 70’s lilt.

The Angles’ Prasanna does it all

Prasanna plays nearly every instrument on an album that easily drifts between Teenage Fanclub and Bread’s softly crooning David Gates.

Here is “Knitting Without Needles,” a melody which also reflects Television quite sweetly.

You need to hear more to appreciate The Angles! Even if you haven’t heard of The Angles before reading this today, I highly recommend you buy Prasanna’s debut at his Bandcamp page!