Carving out a middle ground between Death Cab for Cutie’s wistful pop and Passion Pit’s revved-up synths, Milwaukee’s Boy Blue flirts with indie-rock and dance music alike without fully limiting themselves to the conventions of either. The follow-up to last year’s I Liked You Better When EP, which nabbed them a 88.9 Radio Milwaukee Music Award for catchiest song of the year (“Robot Tube Socks”), the group’s just-released Words On Trial EP is even brighter and buzzier, all twitchy tempos, skyscraping synths and eager, sing-along hooks.

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