Tomten’s spring and summer 2012 releases, the Ta Ta Dana EP and the following full length album Wednesday’s Children feature songs that have been thrilling Pacific NW audiences at clubs since they formed in 2010. These are deliciously crafted parlor romps featuring a keen sense of assured swing with shambolic passion (think the sweetest nuggets you’d hear on a Wes Anderson soundtrack). Fans of dream pop factories Papercuts, dark maestros like John Cale, or chanteuse-chasers such as Serge Gainsbourg will happily sip this extraordinary bliss of a sonic Cosmopolitan. "Tomten seem to favor creating an atmosphere of reverence; it's like they've written hymns. Not sacred hymns, but hushed pop hymns, slightly flecked with lysergic glints of radiance. … It just all FITS." –The Stranger