Blog: PopMatters

The new album by this reinvented Vancouver indie project has them finding solid footing in raw, energetic piano pop. It's OK that you've probably never heard of Zach Gray and Tom Dobrzanski, but they're on a fervent, foot-stomping mission to change that. The pair struck a nerve in hometown Vancouver, British Columbia, with their first project, the four-piece Lotus Child. That group achieved a cult following ricocheting between the city's downtown hipster hives with a particularly innovative and intelligent form of sweaty, swaggering, piano-driven pop. They attracted the attention of Howard Redekopp, the man...