HOORAY FOR EARTH

As if we needed any further evidence of the synth’s ascendency to its proper place on the throne of contemporary indie, this six-song EP from the Boston-New York four-piece Hooray for Earth further smudges the meaningless lines between rock and electronic. Gritty distortion and the filtering of the beautiful through a wall of fuzz has always been the primary attack in the perpetually burgeoning band’s diverse arsenal, but this bundle of washed-out synth euphoria largely writes Hooray for Earth’s bygone guitar shredding out of the picture. Instead the bright noise comes in heavily affected group vocal harmonies and cresting waves of keyboard rapture. Luke O'Neil - The Boston Globe