Blog: Listen Before You Buy

Tweet There's a jangled brush in "The Dive," the lead track on Los Angeles band Fool's Gold's sophomore release "Leave No Trace." It's a tightly confined cross-breed of Western African harmonies and contemporary pop aesthetics. That should sound familiar: it isn't too far off the well-worn path already travelled by Talking Heads and, even more recently, bands like the Dirty Projectors. Lead singer Luke Top at times even corrals his best David Byrne, such as on "Wild Window", although the [...]