By Eric David Moore
With a third album due out June 11, the Windy City rockers give us, “Varsity,” an ethereal, synthy work that embraces a more glam, chilled-out vibe than the garage/disjointed sort of sound present in their early work. In fact, there’s enough electronic synthy goodness to almost elicit similarities to MGMT or LCD Soundsystem, but the grooving bass, surf-ish riffs, and “Earth Angel” vocals will have you remembering what this band does differently. They’re never as pretty as Bowie (of whom they claim to draw influence) or as grimy as fellow Chicago rockers, The Orwells. They levitate in limbo, genre-hopping several times within a song and doing so seamlessly.