Best New Music! Fang Island describe their aesthetic as "everyone high-fiving everyone," and on their wildly infectious second album, the Brooklyn rockers take manic musicianship and shoutalong choruses to another level-- even with only a couple of verses and choruses. Fang Island is fractured like any post-punk record while also speaking the language of classic rock, yet often feels like an intricate collage pieced together from elements that make songs memorable. It's simply honest, life-affirming and infectious, and it's that rare concentration of directness and simplicity that makes Fang Island so uniquely and wonderfully inclusive.

If those words conjure up an image of the four tenors you haven’t heard Univox. Four players. Four singers. Four writers. But this isn’t tuxedos & hair grease or some hazy, lazy Sunday coffee house combo. These boys drive the bottom, pound the beats and turn up the fuzz. On top of this visceral wallop is the vocal interplay of these four young belters. It brings a melodic texture and tunefulness rarely found in the dive bars and vinyl bins of the indie rock world.