(Electronic, Indie, New Wave) Solid Gold - Eat Your Young - 2012, MP3, 320 kbps

Solid Gold's second album: Eat Your Young, is a slow-burning set of skittish synths, glassy beats, ripple effect riffs, and melancholic melodies that leave you wondering what left a trail of scar tissue deep within the group's core trio (frontman Zack Coulter and multi-instrumentalists Matthew Locher and Adam Hurlburt). Eat Your Young creeps across your speakers like a quiet storm, ebbing and flowing at every turn, from the exorcised demons of The Pendulum to the bookending outbursts of Shock Notice and In the Hollows. All of which sounds incredibly confident despite the record's shades of darkness. That's because Solid Gold spent years developing their musical and lyrical concepts, beginning with their smoky club formation at the University of Wisconsin and becoming much more of a serious pursuit once the group moved to Minneapolis and tracked their 2008 debut, Bodies of Water.