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• Their sound is truly heart-stoppingly new: their blend of rock and Afro-pop is as unusual as it is excitingly different. References from Congolese soukous music meet crashing riffs that would also suit the Strokes. But sometimes they also remind you of Talking Heads during their cosmopolitan phase. In doing so, they develop their very own sound, which pulls the rug out from under your feet, especially live, and is just as multicultural as it is indie
  The musicians around singer Ezra Koenig met at Columbia University and realized that they all had an undivided love for Paul Simon’s “Graceland” album and that Spanish pop music could not be missing from any of their mixtapes. After just their first few shows, the band became the new darlings of the big wide world of the internet. Vampire Weeke