Reception
During their career, Holiday Flyer drew comparisons to many indie pop standard-bearers such as Blueboy, the Softies, early Wolfie, and the Aislers Set, and indeed influenced some of those bands. Their jangly, chiming guitars, wistful lyrics, and wildly concordant sibling boy-girl harmonies made their music both bouncy and soothing, but more earnest than twee. As the zine Caught in Flux put it, Holiday Flyer's sound is 'comforting like a cup of hot chocolate . . . on a drizzly weekend morning.'
The band's reluctance to tour was somewhat unusual for an indie pop band, many of whom rely on word of mouth and contact at shows to build their fanbases. In an interview, Katie Conley summed up the band's live career: 'we've played around town, a little in L.A., very little, like three times, and one time in New York.' Nevertheless, being primarily a studio band did not prevent Holiday Flyer from developing a healthy following in Japan, where their last two releases were put out through Sony.
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