The indie-rock/avant-pop gods conspired to produce some real quality shit when they ordained Samuel Cooper and Brady Keehn meet at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the late aughts. After the latter helped the former edit his senior thesis (a "musical film noir," which sounds pretty interesting in its own right), the duo banded together to form Sunglasses. Ranging from good ol' twangy indie guitar and jangly piano to some more hip hop-y elements, Sunglasses proves they're a band with a wide range and great sound. Since the pair moved to Brooklyn, they've released a weird (in a good way) and kickass music video and their debut full-length album, Wildlife. The entire album can be streamed on Mush Records' website, but their single "Cold Shoulder" is the song that really grabs me. Some muted, spacey sound effects open up the track when out of nowhere comes one of the catchiest indie guitar riffs of all time jerks you out of the aforementioned spaciness. Bass intertwines with the guitar and the sudden, semi-fuzzy vocals. Piano sneaks up out of nowhere. "Cold Shoulder" builds and builds and then just lets you go. Pushing boundaries, reinterpreting and reshaping traditional instrumentation, utilizing silence and isolation—this, my friends, is Sunglasses.