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Chicago-based chamber pop collective the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir arent your typical debauched rock stars reveling in a pastiche of self-destructive clichs. Leading a band thats shared the stage with both the Arcade Fire and Ira Glass, Spoon and Dave Eggers, its clear that lead singer, guitarist, and keyboard player Elia and his scrappy cooperative are comfortable straddling the divide between the debased rock n roll world and the high-minded literati.On the groups self-titled sophomore album (their first for Bloodshot) they deliver songs that crackle with the sweeping intensity of life in its totality -- songs that evoke the jubilance of an early spring as effortlessly as the desolation of a Chicago winter. (Bloodshot)
