Desolation Wilderness - New Universe

Just came across this band yesterday. Slow, with lots of melody - very beachy at times. Worth many listens of your time and a few more. It's hard to understand what the singer is saying but it just flows. I would definitely put this in the category of chillwave. Just when the album starts to get boring it picks back up. I believe it came out sometime in 2009. I've been pretty stoked lately becuz I'm finally getting to all of the past year's stuff I missed.

http://www.myspace.com/desolationwilderness

I think I'm getting tired of the established independent rock scene. I started thinking about this when I downloaded the new Broken Bells album. For those of you who don't know Broken Bells is a collaboration between James Mercer of The Shins and Danger Mouse of Gnarls Barkley. I heard their single on a local radio station back home and was mildly intrigued. Now that I've downloaded the album I feel like its almost a chore to listen to it. I want to... kind of. The thing is I feel like the Mercer + Danger Mouse thing is more of a marketing gimmick than any type of legitimate musical effort. Now I'm sure that it wasn't some blow off thing on their part by any means. But lets face it Mercer hasn't come out with anything Great in a few years now and Gnarls Barkley is well.... Gnarls Barkley. G.B. is kind of like a grammy situated act thats was supposed to ignite some type of alternative appeal that I found uninteresting. Does that make me craazzyy? Maybe. At the same time I feel like I would have a much better time listening to something that I recommended in the first paragraph. It's fun to pull the good bands out of the relative reality of everyday life and into a buzzworthy sort.