HiPSTER WAVE

The weather is great, and Summer is just around the corner.

It’s the perfect time to crank up some chilled out surf rock tunes.

Beach House and Best Coast couldn’t agree more.

They both released their new albums today.

The albums provide the two sides of the transition from Spring to Summer.

Beach House brings the dreamy loveliness of frollicking in a meadow surrounded by flowers in full bloom while Best Coast provides a call to arms for the beach-bound.

If you’re a fan of Death Cab for Cutie, this is pretty good stuff. Gibbard on “Tiny Vessels” is interesting. Band members said “This song could make you sound like the biggest asshole of all time! Listen to these lyrics. They’re not nice, at all!”

Bonus:

If you are looking for the infectious outbursts and pop ballads of The Shins from Garden State, then you may be a little surprised by what you find on Port of Morrow, released March 20, 2012. But if you’ve been listening to indie music since then, you won’t be. Indie music along with our world has grown a lot since the first decade of the new millennium. It now competes with dubstep and other electronic genres or embraces and melds with them, becoming chillwave. Mercer, as referenced in the title of album’s single, “Simple Song” has simplified his song-writing style. The brilliant ramblings of a post-adolescent coming to terms with the world have matured into something slower, cleaner, and less angsty. The result is a more folksy sound reminiscent of Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues. At its best, Port of Morrow, produces great sing-a-long tunes that resonate with an audience whose angst has also tempered into something more like disillusioned acceptance.

Something different.

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Bio: “Crippled in my youth, crippled in my youth, crippled in my youth and I’m trying to breathe”

The music of Rooftop Runners ripples positively original pop waves through far darker lyrics than you’d expect from your typical indie fair: a seething concoction of trippy electro beats and spine-shattering bass lines is equalized by soulful falsetto vocals and folksy, dissonant guitars, making for a sobering but enjoyable listen.

Forging a mix of menacing mood and moving melody out of their adopted city of Berlin, Germany, RTR are Canadian singer-songwriter brother duo Benedikt and Tobias MacIsaac. An internationally accomplished choreographer and dancer respectively, the brothers are no strangers to performing-arts success, having toured and performed extensively with world class troupes in Europe.

Rooftop Runners’ new 4 song EP “We Are Here” will be released April 3, 2012, and it’s meant as both an affirmation and a promise that “RTR has arrived and they are here to stay.” With fervent response from local music media and a rapidly growing fan-base, a European Tour starting this February and an eagerly-anticipated full length debut album also due in 2012, the siblings seem set to drop their pioneer strand of Trip-Pop at us from rooftops the world over before long. The EP “We Are Here” is just an introduction.

so long…