Hype Monitor Los Campesinos Benoit Pioulard The Welcome Wagon
Every week, Hype Monitor wades through the most buzzed-about bands all across the Internet.
**The Band**: Los Campesinos
**Th Buzz**: Wacky Wales collective spit out songs as bright and varied as
day-glo paint.
**Listen If**: You have a serious sugar deficiency, and need songs with big
hooks and indelible melodies
**Key Track**: The synthy rush of "We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed," where
cascading keys do battle with sawing strings and big bursts of guitar
**The Band**: Benoit Pioulard
**The Buzz**: Oregon folkie makes music that's as dark and mysterious as curls
of smoke.
**Listen if**: You have a thing for men with soft voices, or need music to
drift to sleep by.
**Key Track**: "Ragged Tint," where Pioulard's cotton ball voice bounces atop
tumbleweed guitars.
**The Band**: The Welcome Wagon
**The Buzz**: Kinfolk of Sufjan Stevens continue his quest to make banjos.
sexy, writing Appalachian gospel songs that are both spare and stirring.
**Listen If**: You haven't been to church in a few years, and want to make
amends with a Sunday morning hoedown.
**Key Track**: The uber-Christian "But For You Who Fear My Name," where a gang
chorus, blurting brass and twinkles of guitar make for a modern-day hymn.
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