CocoRosie – Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
Within moments of playing CocoRosie, you hear that you’re listening to someone operating on a completely different level that the rest of us. Sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady fill every bit of open space with hypnotic rhythms, painted with a wide pallet of strange instrumentations (or loops of them), and top it all off with off-kilter vocals. Some transcend the normal ability of pop vocals, thanks to Sierra’s operatic training, while Bianca’s just transcend normalcy, thanks to an almost unnerving weirdness that mixes Bjork cuteness with Tricky‘s Martina and a bunch of helium and psilocybin mushrooms.