By way of Washington state comes Brooklyn's Brad Oberhofer, a noise pop dynamo with hooks built to give fans of Cloud Cult and Say Hi alike real pause. Such calculated cacophony so often strays into the recherché, but Oberhofer keeps things elastic and dangerous, earning his xylophone strikes with howls of desperation and exasperation. Spin the galloping "Away From You", below.

Oberhofer "Away From You"