Blog: PopMatters

On their debut, this band made waves on the strength of a quietly revelatory single about the year 2080. Now the group seems determined as all hell to imagine 2080 -- the year -- in sound. For all the critical buzzwords ascribed to 2007's All Hour Cymbals -- psychedelic, ethereal, sonically adventurous; Pitchfork's Eric Harvey described a "pan-ethnic spiritualism" derived in the Byrne/Eno tradition -- there was always something intangibly organic about the album; earthy, even. It was the sort of cavernous, lightly doctored indie-pop you could throw on a mix with Fleet Foxes or Yellow House-era Grizzly Bear [...]