So June is here and that means it’s time to pick out your very own personal Summer Anthem. Didn’t you know? It’s that perfect song you’ll play over and over again. It’s that melody that stubbournly stays in your head during those long, hot-asphalt afternoons. It’s the tune that serves as an aural cool breeze on those hot august nights Neil Diamond has told us about.

So what’s it going to be for the summer of ‘06? Maybe Camera Obscura’s Lloyd Cole riposte, “Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken”? Yo La Tengo’s bouncy “Beanbag Chair”? The Concretes‘ irresistibly buoyant “On the Radio”? Jolie Holland’s drowsy morning after love song “Crush In The Ghetto”? All are worthy contenders.

But for our money, you can’t beat the Bedroom Walls‘ bittersweet (emphasis on the “sweet”) “Kathy In Her Bedroom.” Hook is piled atop hook, choruses soar higher than the clouds, and reverb-laden guitars and celestial vocal harmonies chime merrily away. The song can be found on the LA-based band’s second album, All Good Dreamers Pass This Way (out now on Baria Records). And while “Kathy” is the song that leaps out at the listener, the LP as a whole is excellent as well. Singer/Songwriter/Mastermind Adam Goldman and co. have crafted a pristine pop classic that manages to be both warm and inviting while retaining a very singular (and often downright weird) vibe throughout. The band certainly knows its way around a shimmering, unabashedly poppy chord progression, but isn’t afraid to go off on hypnotic, spacey tangents�witness the long, trance-like outro on the album’s epic, “Then the Narrator Smiles.”

Stream album samples here.