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Music: Rock/Pop Frog Eyes w/ Papertrigger, Hospitality, and Julianna Barwick

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Offering an uncompromising counterpoint to Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown's erratic pop exorcisms, British Columbia's Frog Eyes are an indie-rock success story that doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense. Singer Carey Mercer yelps more than croons, violently contorting his words in a series of self-inflicted seizures. Perhaps it's this embrace of unencumbered emotion — more than any kind of immediate aesthetic accessibility — that so endears the group to the straight-and-narrow scene. Drenched in echoing guitar and counterpointed with sparse drum fills, his songs are awash in the same unmitigated emotion as early Xiu Xiu. But where Xiu Xiu turn to poppy electronics to ingratiate themselves, Mercer sticks to honest, no-frills angst.

– Andrew Phillips

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