“What does the XYZ Affair do? The XYZ Affair makes big songs. The Brooklyn band’s debut album has enough screamy guitars, scream-along choruses and just plain flat-out screamishness to fill a band twice as big as their four members. With choruses of multi-tracked background vocals, synthscapes, alternately choppy and wailing guitars and anthemic meolodies, the band isn’t waiting until they blow up to start sounding explosive.”

“…like any good rock and roll band, they know how to milk the tension between the “ooo, aaa” sweetness of falsetto backing vocals and the punishing grandeur of distorted power chords. I hearby proclaim the XYZ Affair jukebox-ready.”

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