Hooray For Earth

The first time I heard Hooray For Earth was when I saw their video for the band's single and title track off their album True Loves. It was my favorite song as well as my favorite music video of 2011, and I must have played it hundreds of times. But it still sounds special and fresh to me.I listen to a lot of music, and I like a lot of bands. Some of them I like because their music is fun or has a good beat or good lyrics, or they remind me of another band I like. Every now and then though, I come across a band that really makes me feel something when I listen to their music. Hooray For Earth is one of those bands. Whenever I hear their music I want to close my eyes and ignore everything else and just listen."True Loves" is an epic track. I was a bit obsessed with it for a while and have posted probably about 20 comments on the band's Facebook page asking when True Loves was going to get distribution in Australia. I finally got sick of waiting, managed to pull some strings and get their album sent to me about a week ago, and I've been listening to virtually nothing else since then.I bought Hooray For Earth's EP Momo online (even though the shipping cost more than the album itself) after hearing "True Loves" because I thought the track would be on it. Sadly, it wasn't, and I didn't love Momo at first -- but, it definitely grew on me. Momo was more experimental than what I'd heard from True Loves, but hey, I didn't like Animal Collective when I first heard them either.Honestly, I was expecting that it would be an OK album and that "True Loves" would be the standout track, but I was oh-so-happily wrong. The entire album is a solid display of slightly experimental but still melodic tunes. Standout tracks are "Sails," "True Loves," "Same," "No Love," "Bring Us Closer Together" -- well, yeah. Pretty much the whole album.