Light Pollution + Lower Dens + Kisses + Young Empires + Everything Everything + Shilpa Ray

CMJ Music Marathon. Chicago's Light Pollution is a bouncy, poppy proposition, combining ecstatic choruses and melancholic, questing vocals to killer effect. The group is just one unit of a stuffed lineup that also includes Lower Dens (which crafts shoegazey, colorfully off-kilter pop songs on its debut LP, Twin-Hand Movement), disco newcomers Kisses, cabaret-meets-punk chanteuse Shilpa Ray and more.