Le Weekend's deconstructed college radio-rock hits on two divergent ends of that spectrum—passion and apathy. The music is technical as hell, yet Le Weekend has a penchant for establishing an ebullient, catchy melody just to cut it off quickly and switch to another one. With casual vocals and jarring starts and stops, Le Weekend plays like a mid-'90s indie band having an identity crisis mid-song. Exciting new band Airstrip brings dark, riff-built pop that neither navel-gazes nor gets mired down in its own gloom. —Corbie Hill