Yacht + Light Asylum + Bobby Birdman

Like Public Image Ltd., Yacht is a pop band that aspires to something grander—“a Band, Belief System and Business”—in full knowledge that its ambitions are unfeasible. The duo’s listeners are not meant to buy into the propaganda so much as to take it as a signal of Yacht’s artiness and mischievousness. Brooklyn's Light Asylum layers '80s-style vocals over dreamy synth-pop, while Bobby Birdman delivers pop songs in a genuine croon.