(Stay High) Gauntlet Hair, "Top Bunk"

I always thought a band called Gauntlet Hair was supposed to sound busted -- nasty noise shoved into the red made by greasy dudes and the knobs they love to twiddle. Turns out they make crazy-compressed positive pop with all those shimmery post-psychedelia guitar arpeggio turns that scream "This is Animal Collective's territory, and cheered up bands like Gauntlet Hair just rent." Sure, it's cheap to compare every man with a full-throated bellowing vocal style to Panda Bear, and...

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