The side project of Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles, it casts the cerebral New Yorkers as cheesy pool-party engineers, proffering a blend of glitchy synth-pop and Auto-Tuned R&B. Suggesting the bastard offspring of Hot Chip and Akon, their shtick bears a pungent whiff of novelty which bodes ill for its shelf life. But from skittering slow jam "Orange Shirt" to the tempo-shifting, tropical-flavoured "So Insane", what matters for now is the potency of the tunes, which are giddily populist and slyly inventive in equal measure.
