DIVINE FITS
A Thing Called Divine Fits

Merge, 2012

• Favorites:

  “My Love Is Real,” “Shivers”

• flavors:

  Pop Rocks, Summer Ale

RATING:

TRACK LIST:

1. My Love Is Real
2. Flaggin A Ride
3. What Gets You Alone
4. Would That Not Be Nice
5. The Salton Sea
6. Baby Gets Worse
7. Civilian Stripes
8. For Your Heart
9. Shivers
10. Like Ice Cream
11. Neapolitans

That ripe popping sound, friends, is the noise of 5,000 blog-Gollums ejaculating simultaneously. Three of the indiest bands in history—Spoon, Wolf Parade, and New Bomb Turks—have all contributed members to a supergroup, meaning they’re only half of Xiu Xiu away from the indie equivalent of cold fission. Whatever: this remains some of the best electro-pop messing about you’ll hear all year—easily as good as any of their respective acts, kind of like when The Travelling Wilburys were better than The Beatles, Dylan, and ELO put together.