Sybris Have A Plan

noah | December 22, 2008 9:30 am
So I’m late to this party, apparently (the album came out all the way back when people in the States were complaining about the heat, not the cold), but Sybris’ “Oh Man!”—which I heard for the first time on this weekend’s installment of the late-night music show Fearless Music—may be making a run for my big old Year-End Mix CD a mere nine days before I actually have to commit to a tracklist for the damn thing. The Chicago quartet plays the kind of propulsive indie that ruled college radio back in the ’90s—steady beats that sync up with signposts on long drives really well, frantic strumming—while Angela Mullenhour’s yawp is something to behold. Plus the video, about a jewel heist gone wrong in an otherworldly way, is playful in the sort of way that makes me feel like these guys would be lots of fun live. [YouTube / MySpace]