Music List

Critical 5: Notable Bands From Brooklyn

By Mike Hilleary

While Manhattan may have its landmark pieces of architecture, museums, and popular tourist traps, it's the more subdued borough of Brooklyn that has lately served as the city's definitive breeding ground for amazing new music. With its competitive environment forcing artists to distinguish themselves in all kinds of audibly new and inventive ways, the creative ouput of the area has only gotten stronger in recent years. Here are a few of our favorite works by our more lauded residents.    

CRITICAL LIST

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear
Ambient meets acoustic in a bewitching sonic space >>

Forget

Twin Shadow
The evolution of chillwave. >>

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors
Approaching the mainstream while maintaining an experimental streak. >>

Odd Blood

Yeasayer
Brooklyn buzz band changes their game. >>

Something

Chairlift
Shaking the Apple ad naysayers? >>