A band doesn’t have to be legendary, or even great, to be definitive. Case in point: Hooray For Earth. If you consider “alt synth-rock” to be a thing—and you should—any given release from the Brooklyn band could be considered state of the art. In the three-year stretch between their first EP and 2011’s True Loves, their aesthetic evolved from a less polychromatic rendering ofMGMT’s Mario Paint symphonies to a parallel of the percussive, vaguely mystic electro-pop streamlining of Animal Collective and Yeasayer. Three years later, Racyreflects where we’re currently at; this type of band no longer has any pretense of being “indie rock” in anything but a nominal sense. Racy is big, it’s bold, and positions its creators closer to "pop", only to reveal them as a pop band by context rather than nature. - excerpt from a review on http://pitchfork.com/
Friday, February 6, 2015
Hooray for Earth - Racy
A band doesn’t have to be legendary, or even great, to be definitive. Case in point: Hooray For Earth. If you consider “alt synth-rock” to be a thing—and you should—any given release from the Brooklyn band could be considered state of the art. In the three-year stretch between their first EP and 2011’s True Loves, their aesthetic evolved from a less polychromatic rendering ofMGMT’s Mario Paint symphonies to a parallel of the percussive, vaguely mystic electro-pop streamlining of Animal Collective and Yeasayer. Three years later, Racyreflects where we’re currently at; this type of band no longer has any pretense of being “indie rock” in anything but a nominal sense. Racy is big, it’s bold, and positions its creators closer to "pop", only to reveal them as a pop band by context rather than nature. - excerpt from a review on http://pitchfork.com/
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