Hype Monitor: Radio Dept., Mr. Gnome and Brendan Canning

Every week, Hype Monitor wades through the most buzzed-about bands all across the Internet. This week: a few choice picks from the charts at BlogFreshRadio.

**The Band:** Radio Dept.
**The Buzz:** Swedish indie poppers who’ve edged gradually away from shoegaze toward some coy approximation of the Cure’s Disintegration
**Listen If:** You wear black on the outside, because black is how you feel on the inside.
**Key Track:** “Freddie & the Trojan Horse,” from their forthcoming EP of the same name, where dour vocals do battle with thwacking percussion and neon-blue guitars.

**The Band:** Mr. Gnome
**The Buzz:** OK, full confession: we didn’t even know there was a band called Mr. Gnome until we looked at the BFR charts. And we keep up on this stuff. So, buzz? They’re a duo from Cleveland named Mr. Gnome. Any questions?
**Listen If:** Good god, man, they’re called Mr. Gnome! How many more reasons do you need?
**Key Track:** The excellent “Night of the Crickets,” where great swipes of serrated guitar slash across Nicole Barille’s gooey vocals. The absolute antidote to all those shrinking violets we’ve been big upping lately.

**The Band:** Brendan Canning
**The Buzz:** Canning is a member of Broken Social Scene, whose solo record Something for All of Us will be released in July.
**Listen If:** You like pop music scuffed up with grimy guitars, or you are Facebook friends with someone who plays in Broken Social Scene (which, let’s face it, you probably are).
**Key Track:** “Hit the Wall” is the one that’s turning up, and it buries Canning’s tiny voice deep beneath squawking guitars and groaning bass. It’s fevered and frenetic and contains exactly the measure of paranoia you’d expect from someone who belongs to what’s essentially a musical cult.
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