Communique

Grandiose pop songs with sweet intentions. The prominent use of synthesizers and slickly produced guitars triggers memories of everything from Duran Duran to Gene Loves Jezebel, but the songs underneath are all spiky indie pop glories. "Evaporate" and "Dagger Visions" shimmer and resonate.

Oakland's Communique may play synthed-out retro-pop, full of keyboard wails and tight
harmonies, but they remain, at heart, a rock band. On their full-length debut, Poison
Arrows, the quartet expands on the blinding, blistery music found on its startling EP, A
Crescent Honeymoon. Here, though, the songs dance a bit more, as jams like "Perfect
Weapon" and "Oija Me" shake with body-moving, catchy, almost disco-like groov... More >