North Highlands – “Sugar Lips” and “Collar Bones”

Brooklyn's North Highlands run with a broad palette: piano, mandolin, violin, plus the requisite guitar, bass, and drums. But this doesn't mean they get caught up in fuzzy atmospherics -- all the songs on their recently self-released Sugar Lips EP are driven by hooks and melodies first, delicate charm second. They owe much of the latter to vocalist Brenda Malvini. ...