acrylics

Acrylics' crystalline, cinematic Lives and Treasure standout "Sparrow Song" -- which features backing vocals from Chairlift's Caroline Polachek -- is set to oddly soothing New Age-y visuals (ballerinas, surfers, crystals, seagulls, burning powerlines, beach volleyball players) in this new clip from "New York based video production brotherhood" House Plants...

Here's the first new track to surface from Acrylics' forthcoming LP Lives and Treasure, due early next year on fledgling label Hot Sand Records. Molly Shea's pristine vocals smolder on lead single "Nightwatch," a dusky, Fleetwood Mac-indebted smooth jam with a similar late '70s FM soft-rock sheen as last year's great "Molly's Vertigo...

Brooklyn's Acrylics is the latest band to emerge from the Chairlift/Amazing Baby/MGMT fam that has seen so much success over the last year or so, and based on the handful of songs I've heard from the group thus far, they're roughly one iPod commercial away from blowing up like the rest of that crew...