Smart Growth: Surrey

This Baltimore band has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention recently, thanks to Pitchfork Media plugging their track "Immigration Reform". Surrey is available for free download through the band's Myspace, but it would still be worth the average price for an EP, should the decide to sell it. Stylistically, it reminds me a lot of Battles, with lots of polyrhythmic synths and drum machines. Smart Growth also sample liberally from recognizable Phil Collins/late-period Genesis throughout the five tracks, but I'd argue that they handle them more competently than Collins has in twenty years.