Another great slice of art-pop from Burbank's finest, The Sugarplastic. 7x7x7 is brilliant: not a bad track on the entire album. The songs are complex and beautifully arranged, the songwriting top-notch (lyrically as well as musically), and they can rock as hard as anyone to boot. 
Featuring jangly, angular guitars, and lush harmonies, the music is unpredictable & fresh without one second of filler. Here's a band that has synthesized a unique pop formula: sweet, offbeat & occasionally transcendent.
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A music nerd like me could get excited about all the rhythmic play, noticing how if you consistenly keep a 2:3 beat going, these guys manage to dodge and dart between the beats yet always land smack dab in the same groove. But you don't have to be enthralled by cool rhythmic modulations and gymnastics to appreciate The Sugarplastic. Let's just say that as fun and entertaining as it might be, there's a helluva lot going on under those spunky hooks, those catchy as heck guitar lines, those brilliant choruses. It's jaw dropping how much ingenius they can pack into one song. It's sort of like visual art that you just really can't entirely appreciate in one looking- you just know it's damn good. From hints of the 60s to emo rock of today, 7X7X7 will keep you entranced the whole way through. 
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