Rogue Wave: Descended Like Vultures

On Descended Like Vultures, Rogue Wave pick clean the haunting post-Shinsian dream-pop that defined their debut. All skeleton, the record's hook-heavy indie cuts glimmer with but a hint of their former mysterious, melancholic edge. It'd be easy to cry foul but, by shedding his lamentful skin, songwriter Zach Rogue has exposed a more truthful heart — one that slowly, steadily seduces. -Andrew Phillips