As far as tone is concerned, These Are Powers have that down above anything else. Teeth-grittingly tense and with chilling atmosphere, they play the appropriate soundtrack for a bombed-out, water-damaged Brooklyn basement with one bulb for light. If the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had pursued the more confrontational branches of New York no-wave, they would probably sound like this. Since drafting Bill Salas on drums, electronic percussion, and weird noises in 2007, they've been adding 8-bit bells and whistles and a touch of 1990s Warp sound palette to the band's art-rock. Meanwhile, Pat Noecker continues to use his guitar to gnash and threaten around the edges of the songs, never being much of a riff guy from Liars to n0 things to now. Singer Anna Barie babbles, barks, and purrs over the peculiar pastiche. From Brooklyn. Dead Oceans

Laptop tropicalia electro punk? Is that it? We can’t even tell frankly, and that’s a large part of their appeal. Casio beats, synthesizers, Happy Mondays-esque chanting and bursts of noise are all part of the plan for Lemonade.

AKA Amanda Warner an lectronic pop singer/producer and gear head who crafts effervescent jams we simply cannot shake from our brains while posting the deepest, nerdiest, most pocket protectorly posts about synthesizers on her blog (ps. it's pronounced pronounced "man dar")