DOWNLOAD THEN SEE: Hooray For Earth

By Jon Graef in Arts & Entertainment on Aug 11, 2010 7:30PM

As listeners might ascertain from Hooray For Earth’s name, the New York-based blog-rock quartet are all about enthusiastically embracing positivity — so much so that the band’s seemingly self-help inspired aphorisms like “tomorrow’s free and so are dreams” will no doubt inspire epic eye-rolls from even the least-committed of cynics. But potential critics will have to really work to ignore a collection of surprisingly eclectic, immaculate arranged space-pop in order to dismiss Hooray For Earth’s five-song EP, MOMO, outright.

We’d hate to say that MOMO has something for everyone, since that phrase is cliché, but … well, let’s just say that Hooray For Earth’s forays into different types are songwriting are both boundless and effortless. From driving fuzz-laden opener “Form”, to more ponderous ambient fare like “Scaling,” to “Comfortable, Comparable,”—which takes Passion Pit-esque dance-pop, adds buoyant, soulful horns, then subtracts the screeching, testicle-tightening falsetto—Hooray For Earth prove themselves to be one of the year’s most exciting emergent acts. Listen to “Surrounded By Your Friends” below, and discover just how futile resistance truly is.

MP3: Hooray For Earth “Surrounded By Your Friends”

Hooray For Earth plays Friday, August 13 at Schubas, 3159 N Southport, 10 p.m., $14, 21+