Blog: Stark Online

Brooklyn's very own Harlem Shakes just released their much anticipated debut LP, Technicolor Health yesterday ; to celebrate, a show this evening at MHOW . The album is now available for full stream here. This quintets' ragtag, excitable music features pop-infused rhythmic beats, nasal vocals and hooky choruses. Their most popular tune, "Strictly Game" feels like dirty Vampire Weekenders bloodied and coked-out after a party with, then beating by, the Dirty Projectors; Harlem emerges from the gutter as Robert Johnson did the crossroads, with something raw and ambitious. [...]