Viernes

Viernes weave baroque indie pop into longstanding ambient textures in a manner that channels the dual impulses of Brian Eno—his experimental electronic work alongside his power-pop leanings. The Winter Park, FL pair Alberto Hernandez and Sean Moore adopted the Spanish weekday-referencing name Viernes in 2008 and immediately began shaping their own brand of exhilarating, unconventional music. Surreally fuzzed vocals situated between the Kinks and Jesus and Mary Chain sit beneath the group’s roaming electronic layers, enabling the act to build an audience rapidly through its own equally unsettling self-produced videos. Pitchfork Media’s consistent spotlight on Viernes’ MP3 releases throughout 2009 further accelerated that momentum.