Monthly Crush II — The Wrath of Khan: Ready Fire Aim

Pop-culture summers are all about sequels (no matter how awesome it looks, we are after all getting a 6th Batman movie in less than a month), so I thought I’d add my own to the mix and give you a few more tunes to help you get through your long flights or road trips. My second pick this month is Brooklyn’s Ready Fire Aim, an electronic trio with a knack for dark, delicious, Depeche Mode-y pop.

Their debut album This Changes Nothing came out at the end of May, and, while a little uneven in parts, it’s a pretty sharp mix of slinky electro-rock and headphone-friendly synth-pop. I skip around the tracklisting a lot, but there are enough winners that it warranted a recommendation here: opener “End Of Over” sounds like an excellent Violator outtake; “Wannabe Your” ratchets up the guitars and has a great Love And Rockets-ish vibe about it; “As If It Were That Easy” is a gorgeous, earworm-inducing ballad; and first single “So Fine” is a great slice of Fischerspooner-y electro. I know that’s a lot of allusions to other groups, but RFA wraps all of their influences up in a neat package. Give them a try:

Download: Ready Fire Aim, “As If It Were That Easy” (mp3)
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Download: Ready Fire Aim, “Wannabe Your” (mp3)
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Like what you hear? Grab This Changes Nothing at Amazon MP3. Stay tuned for more crushes!