Dappled Cities: Live At the Scoot Inn - 3/18/10

It is fitting Dappled Cities dubbed the quirky batch of melody and mood they proffer with their '09 debut Zounds. Like contemporaries Wild Beasts, the Australian five-piece dement more traditional indie rock skirmishes over the course of 12 songs with dramatic vocal lines that dance like seismographs shaking to the big one. Accentuating programming/electronics, wiley guitar lines, droning sing-a-longs and a persistent, rhythmic bop all help to level the skyline...the obvious mission of Dappled Cities. These are not popular sounds, but rather some slight derivatives thereof. Zounds...and they're yours for the taking in this concert performance from the 2010 edition of the SXSW Music Festival.