Rats With Wings
Rats With Wings (MySpace) is a Brooklyn-based (big surprise there!) quartet that plays, for lack of a better descriptor ... indie pop. At it's core, this stuff is fun and a little folksy, with jazzier drumming, orchestral laptop-generated backing melodies, and a completely sincere and genuine approach as a whole.
At points, the electronic stuff can get a little too cheesy and the vocals a little too Chris Martin-y for me, but hey, maybe that's why these four are so endearing and real. They just released an EP, Tiny Guns, that is chalk-full of their goofy breed of indie pop, that you really ought to check out ...
But first, a couple o' samplers?
Rats With Wings - Everwise Muskellunge
Rats With Wings - Hungry Like the Wolf
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Rats With Wings is a long-time-in-the-making hobby-cum-main-concern started by Brendan Fitzpatrick (brother of Pete Fitzpatrick aka The Pee Wee Fist), once-bassist with Clem Snide before Eef had another one of his hissy-ego fits last year.
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