The Queen & I, from Oakland, are a relatively new DIY band, but they don’t sound like one. The Queen & I specialize in vast, dreamy guitar-rock that sounds like it should be rocking a few tens of thousands of people at a UK festival in the ’90s. They’ve harnessed the power of sweeping guitar riffs and reaching-into-infinity vocals. Their records are sleek and clean, and they move. They mess around with some of the same shoegaze and dream-pop sounds as tons of other bands, but they make that stuff sound bigger than most.
