Torches is the debut release for Foster The People released on May 23 this year. The trio consist of lead singer Mark Foster along with bandmates Mark Ponitus and Cubbie Fink. Foster hails from Cleveland and has been recording music since he was a kid, but when he met his other future bandmates in Los Angeles, the seed was planted and grew quickly when they wrote "Pumped Up Kicks" and put it on the internet. Soon after they got themselves a record deal.
It's pretty easy to write these guys off as one hit wonders, but lest we forget "Don't Stop" garnered a spot in a commercial and listening to the album was quite a surprise for the skeptic in me that identified their songs as rather hipster-ish, and a little too lo-fi for my taste. Well I was wrong. FTP is essential summer music infusing catchy synth beats and computer wizardry to create something different for the masses and kudos to this trio in making it work. When I first heard "Pumped Up Kicks" I didn't think it would catch on, but it did, and the rest of the album is no snoozer with nary a ballad to be found. Just some feelgood, uptempo tunes that will no doubt get some attention once the Grammys noms are announced later this year.
I give them an 8 out of 10.<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/music" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://scm-l3.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=music" alt=" " />music</a>
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