Here is a vital reminder from The Seashores: It is all the time summer season someplace.
The Toronto band launched one in all 2025’s most effervescent albums, No Onerous Emotions, in late August. Its new-wave-inflected pop-rock jams — about dangerous love, queer love, dangerous queer love and a life constructed across the steadfast refusal to let a very good occasion finish — would have made an ideal soundtrack for the defiant pleasure of Satisfaction Month again in June. However, with darkness falling earlier and earlier, they appeared to know one thing we did not: that the world wants these songs now greater than ever.
Inside NPR Music, there’s been a motion afoot to deliver The Seashores to the Tiny Desk ever since 2023’s “Blame Brett” turned one in all that 12 months’s most irresistible, quotable songs. So it felt acceptable that the group opened with it two years later, in a five-song set drawn from 2023’s Blame My Ex and No Onerous Emotions. The most recent songs actually showcase The Seashores’ sonic vary, in addition to the powerhouse vocals of Jordan Miller — notably within the slow-burn lighter-waver “Lesbian of the Yr.” (The tune was impressed by the coming-out journey of Seashores multi-instrumentalist Leandra Earl, who left behind a gold-star trophy for our cabinets.)
No Onerous Emotions additionally sports activities a number of the spikiest, catchiest anthems of 2025, and two of them are showcased to magical impact right here: the brooding banger “Can I Name You within the Morning?” and “Final Women on the Celebration,” which appears destined to shut Seashores concert events for so long as the group exists. The tune could also be an ode to sticking round too lengthy, however as this set reveals, this band by no means wears out its welcome.
SET LIST
- “Blame Brett”
- “Can I Name You within the Morning?”
- “Lesbian of the Yr”
- “Fringe of the Earth”
- “Final Women on the Celebration”
MUSICIANS
- Jordan Miller: vocals, bass
- Kylie Miller: guitar, background vocals
- Leandra Earl: guitar, piano, melodica, background vocals
- Eliza Enman McDaniel: drums
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producers: Elle Mannion, Stephen Thompson
- Director: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Alanté Serene
- Video Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Engineer: Jay Czys
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
- Photographer: Sofia Seidel
- Tiny Desk Group: Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Govt Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton