Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty

 

Do you like Ellie Goulding and Owl City? Me neither, but enough do to make them two of 2010’s breakthrough acts. Those same people will likely elect Victoria & Jacob to join them, sharing as they do the former’s sensitivity and the latter’s soppy pop-nous. And, like the aforementioned, they are similarly open to charges of derivativeness – committee-made camels to Passion Pit and the Postal Service’s horses. The Passion Pit-influence is particularly un-ignorable, With No Certainty practically sampling Sleepyhead’s electric cries. That said, it’s very nice – like Sally Shapiro shorn of shyness – and consequentially merits further investigation. [Chris Buckle]