Darwin Deez

Blending an equal measure of indie eccentricity, Beck, and Fleetwood Mac, Brooklyn’s Darwin Deez excels at fusing sunshine pop with indie attitude and lo-fi dissonance while frequently bewildering crowds through his quirky, Napoleon Dynamite-like dance moves. Having first played in the N.Y.C. band Creaky Floors, Deez assembled the group bearing his own name and issued the catchy indie-pop track “Constellations.” Their concerts, which opened with the full ensemble dancing to “Peanut Butter Jelly Time,” quickly turned the act into a fixture among Brooklyn’s hipster audience, while early 2010’s “Radar Detector” and its wildly eccentric video drew U.K. attention. That year the musicians gathered their finest “happy songs for sad people” onto a self-titled debut album issued by Lucky Number. Throughout the following decade the band remained with Lucky Number, delivering Songs for Imaginative People in 2013, Double Down in 2015, and 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me with My Stupid Heart in 2018.