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: The Interest Group
Based: Philadelphia, U.S.
Listen: soundcloud.com/the-interest-group
Similar to: Girls

Any obsession with the ‘60s won’t stop at collecting Beatles albums and deconstructing every individual reference contained within a Mad Men episode. These aficionados will either physically lug themselves off to an empty field on a hot summer’s day, with daisy chains placed around their foreheads, or they can explore the musical side a little more, eventually landing at the present day. Today’s recreators of the sound that soundtracked liberty and open-mindedness are The Interest Group.

Marissa Lesnick, Yohsuke Araki, Kyle Garvey & Derek Fass make up the formation of a band who know every element to a fantastic psychedelic pop song like the back of their hands. Two tracks unveiled to date transport you right to the very centre of the hippie scene: ‘The Boys and the Girls’ is perfectly-turned out, a stylish reincarnation of the era, while ‘The Passenger’ just sounds like the gigantic chart hit that the decade missed out on at the time.