Video: Headlights - Get Going

On their third album, the indie-pop perennials attempt to avoid a sugary pop-induced stomach ache with gloomy experimentation. Wildlife, the third album from the indie-pop featherweights Headlights, isn't exactly the sprawling, tooth-and-nail kind of romp that its title would have you believe. In fact, as a quick disclaimer to the curious outdoors-inclined music enthusiast, it should be noted that there aren't any cricket chirps, campfire singalongs, or bird calls to be found on the album -- which, aside from featuring a song titled "We're All Animals", doesn't really have much to do with...

David Bazan @ Bowery Ballroom in October ( more by Jake Forney ) David Bazan 's Curse Your Branches came out last September , and he marked the occasion with solo living room shows (which stopped in Brooklyn ) and a full-band tour . Bazan has another show living room tour this January, then he'll head out for shows in March and April with Headlights . They'll play Music Hall of Williamsburg [...]

It's weird the kinship you can feel by having long-distance musical "relationships" with people as their careers progress and meander. I feel that way about Midwesterners Headlights , whose third album "Wildlife" was just released on Polyvinyl. Headlights principal songwriters Tristan Wraight and Erin Fein were in Absinthe Blind , who put out two albums ("The Everyday Separation" and "Rings") on little Mud Records in 2001 and 2003. With Headlights, the direction is meticulously observant and thankfully un-cloying indie-pop; "Wildlife" ebbs and flows, twining keyboard-drenched melodies, shimmering guitars and boy-girl vocals into a dreamy tunes that, like the [...]

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