It is pretty much a rule that nothing will intrigue and entice the human mind like that which is contradictory. I mean, Hüsker Dü even wrote a song about it, and you just don’t question a band with umlauts in their name. It's like a pair of eyes. You're looking at the umlaut, and it's looking at you. From this you can see as plainly as the scruff on my face why bands that often get pegged with the clashing tag of “noise pop” have gotten a lot of buzz this year (get it? buzz? zzzzz? ehn? ehn?). [more]