The XYZ Affair are four affable young men who operate out of a little indie rock paradise called Brooklyn. Intricate but poppy, one is quickly struck by their mastery of full band vocal harmony (quite a feat when layered atop their already sharp musicianship). Your SAK correspondent stumbled by pure accident upon a set they played at Matchless some time ago and hasn’t stopped listening since.

If you check their MySpace page for some just announced tour dates (including Maxwell’s and Mercury Lounge), be sure and listen to “All My Friends”–it’s the secret weapon they employed to keep the US and France from going to war some 200 years ago (look it up, if, unlike your SAK correspondent, you didn’t get a 5 on the AP US History Test).

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