Off-Kilter Pop/Rock with Font, Yard Act, Pond, Everything Everything, and Islands
These categorizations continue to get stupider and stupider. This time around the name of the game is playful. These 5 bands to varying degrees of rock and pop from post-punk to electro-pop all deliver a pretty playful push and pull that, while nebulous, made sense for me to put together. Strange Burden - Font Font are a Texas band that first caught my eye last year when I saw indie blogs hyping up their song It , which I really enjoyed. It also inspired me to listen to their debut single Sentence 1 , which I'll forever be wishing I wasn't so late to. That momentum continued to build into this year with more strong singles and a resulting 30-minute debut album. My favorite of those two follow-up singles was Hey Kekule a groovy Talking Heads-ish combination of dance rhythms and chimes with a neurotic punk intensity. The first non-single on the album is the opening track The Golden Calf a messy and noisy piece of frenetic post-punk. It doesn't star...