I've been totally loving Hot Club De Paris recently. They have some fairly impressive influences like Cap'N Jazz, Don Caballero, and XTC, but have managed to distill them into tight bursts of math pop. Unfortunately, their most recent album isn't available in the States yet, but you can get the first one at iTunes and Amazon MP3.
Hot Club De Paris - Let Go Of Everything
Hot Club De Paris official site
Hot Club De Paris on MySpace
Labels: HOT CLUB DE PARIS, INDIE POP, INDIE ROCK, MATH ROCK
Philadephia's Pattern Is Movement plays glitchy chamber pop meets post punk meets math rock. It's kind of hard to describe, but it's very lushly produced minus the deliberately choppy samples. They've been previously compared to the likes of Don Caballero and Pinback, and they have been known to share the stage with The Forms...but aside from the hype, is it any good?
Hell yes!
Pattern Is Movement - Right Away
Pattern Is Movement - Bird
Pattern Is Movement official site
Pattern Is Movement on MySpace
Labels: INDIE ROCK, MATH ROCK, PATTERN IS MOVEMENT
Continuing our new year's opening festivities, we have some more bands that are having some important releases this year. One of them is 31Knots. Building on the momentum of a breakout year in late 2005/early 2006, they've wasted no time working on new material. The best way to describe them would be to call them math-prog-indie-punk. Yeah, yeah, we all love labels. In any case, they dropped an EP late last year as a precursor to their upcoming full length, The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere (March 6, 2007).
Check out "Sedition's Wish" from the aforementioned EP and their breakout track, "Chain Reaction".
31Knots - Sedition's Wish
31Knots - Chain Reaction
31Knots official site
31Knots on MySpace
Labels: 31KNOTS, INDIE ROCK, MATH ROCK
