I was turned on to this group by a "celebrity playlist" on iTunes Music Store. The celebrity was Edward Norton, and his theme was to push the work of relatively unknown NY artists that he likes a lot. Well, thanks Ed, they're great. His description of them as an odd combination of Ziggy-era Bowie and the Velvet Underground, and yet unique, is apt. Personally, I hear a bit of Porcupine-era Echo and the Bunnymen in the tune White Confection.

Anyway, I ended up buying both their first album Salad Days, and their eponymous (and incomplete) new album, and have been digging them both mightily.