Blog: PopWreck(oning)

Remind me why we need another indie-pop super group? Members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot populate Discovery and that's a bad place to start. But the real burning question is why do these guys think that it's okay to make R&B music the hipsters can jive to? It's not. Now they have some hooks, that's for sure; you'll hum some of this and it can be downright maddeningly catchy. But it's so trite, so immediate and embarrassing in its guilty pleasure-ness that I have a hard time ever [...]