It's obvious why these folks are the new hotness: start with daydream-ready, mewling cute-girl vocals straight out of pop proper; add every trick M83 ever used to circumvent reason and trigger pining for a collectively-invented romantic 80's innocence. Indie kids get momentary escape from their vacantly effortless lives. Profit.
It almost works, but it doesn't even make any effort to hide the strings. It's all baldly manipulative, so brazenly pushing the right buttons: cue doubledup synth loop, trigger synth tom breakdown, insert guitar solo, overlay male vocal counterpoint copied straight out of Cut Copy. It's a seven layer dip of 80's re-re-revival horseshit. These are old tricks in 2013, every last one of them, and doing them with a girl singing doesn't pass for innovation and doesn't keep it from sounding stale 2.5/5
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