Strong Buy: This Music That Sounds Like Other Music

These three pukka* albums put the "access" in accessible and there's an 87% guarantee you'll be in lurve halfway through the second listen of each song listed. I'd like to think that I can fully soak up and appreciate Black Moth Super Rainbow, Sunset Rubdown or anything this side of Portishead and Sunn O))), but my roots are in bright peppy tunes that demand overplay. So if a lamer than network TV** co-worker's recent affinity for your standby RockPop bands has left you mildly irked, spot them for a couple or five months with these guys.

The infamous Chicago music blog gave Girls a 9.1 on their debut and even if I hadn't exchanged sparse words with two of its members "Album" would still bag a hard 8.

After six months Free Energy's single "Dream City" and I are still in the middle of a torrid "best weekend ever", which this EP seems set on turning into a "never ending dream summer"***, regardless of leaf color.

Unlike the previous bands, and unbeknownst to me, Hockey has been around for awhile, but it shares engaging dirt simple lyrics and a built-for-euphoria production quality that demands less room between repeat listens than the proximity of these bands on my ipod, which currently have Hall & Oates as lone chaperon.

Album - Girls 9/10

Free Energy EP - Free Energy 9/10

Mind Chaos - Hockey 9/10

*Today's Dictionary.com Word of the Day.

**30 Rock excluded.

***This probably doesn't required quotations.

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