The debut album plays for me like an alternate soundtrack to The Royal Tenenbaums, which is high praise, you understand. These Columbia hipster-grads have dropped the curtain on an original exhibit in the wing of literate New York art-garage, borrowing compositions from Mark Mothersbaugh with a touch of Police and Thieves and some stuff I guess is from Africa.
The band has described their sound as "Upper West Side Soweto". I learn that Soweto is an abbreviation for South Western Township, an area of Johannesburg, South Africa known as a center of Afro-pop and hip hop culture. I guess that makes VW's style Upper West Side South Western Township, a little joke.
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