Mazarin, Soundteam

Rarely do genres blend and cross-pollinate as fruitfully as on We’re Already There, Mazarin’s gracefully noisy barrage of neo-electronic pop and retro-psychedelia. Four years in the making, Quentin Stolzfus and crew have leaped past the somewhat dated stoner buzz of their two previous releases to concentrate on writing full, concrete songs–and good ones at that. With a sound that falls into a refreshing new locale, somewhere between ’60s stalwarts Love and Moby Grape and recent fare like M83 and The Postal Service, this shotgun marriage of cross-generational styles and ideas is shockingly successful. Mazarin thrive where many, many others have failed, creating authentically old new sounds. Luckily, Austin’s Soundteam haven’t failed at this either–in fact, their refreshing sound has just nabbed a major label contract from Capitol Records, so see what the buzz is about when they open on Sunday.