Novillero “The Hypothesist”

Not quite as mind-blowingly rapturous as their Mint Records labelmates (at times) and fellow Canucks The New Pornographers (okay, high bar), Novillero trades in the same type of incessant, multilayered power pop that can never seem to cram enough choruses into one song. Where they differ from most other bands of their ilk is with their strategic intellectualism, which, in the context of music this happy, sounds more like an excuse to use the phrase “laissez-faire” in a song title than a statement of purpose. I remain a sucker for a killer horn chart, though, and “The Hypothesist” (mp3) has ‘em in spades.

And, oh, what do we have here? A video? (iTunes needed) Stick around for the surprise ending. Incredibly cute.

Buy Novillero’s new album, Aim for the Right Holes in Their Lives, here.

Novillero is a Spanish word referring to a novice bullfighter.

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