SUCKERS

The new wave is definitely alive and strong in Brooklyn. These guys are a reasonably new outfit from that epicentre of American alternate chic, and they have tapped into a musical energy that is palpable. The lead track from this EP Beach Queen rolls and stomps like Scary-Monsters era Bowie, brazen with melodious vocal yelps and vintage synth stabs; it’s a potent sound, followed up by the bizarrely vaudevillian psychedelic romp Afterthoughts & TV, where the group display a penchant for Wilson-esque harmonies and that familiar urgency of chordal stabbing made so popular by Talking Heads back in the day. The EP swings into a dynamic mid-paced anthem Easy Chairs, and It Gets Your Body Movin’ is almost an exercise in contradiction – with its slow-burning torch-sway chorus and rounds of noise echoing the pop experiments of labelmates Yeasayer and Animal Collective. The thing that makes these guys so enticing is their sheer selflessness – no one member seems to be the leader; it’s a shared jam of hard-hit drums, euphoric synths and drunken sing-song vocals that feels like a genuine party between artist and audience. Watch them soar with a full-length record.

***1/2