Kevin Bronson on November 6th, 2009

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It’s weird the kinship you can feel by having long-distance musical “relationships” with people as their careers progress and meander. I feel that way about Midwesterners Headlights, whose third album “Wildlife” was just released on Polyvinyl. Headlights principal songwriters Tristan Wraight and Erin Fein were in Absinthe Blind, who put out two albums (“The Everyday Separation” and “Rings”) on little Mud Records in 2001 and 2003. With Headlights, the direction is meticulously observant and thankfully un-cloying indie-pop; “Wildlife” ebbs and flows, twining keyboard-drenched melodies, shimmering guitars and boy-girl vocals into a dreamy tunes that, like the music from their first two albums, has been shelter from the storm.

||| Download: “I Don’t Mind at All” (via RCRDLBL.com)

||| Live: Headlights, along with Anni Rossi, play Nov. 13 at Spaceland.

||| Watch: After the jump, check out the video for my favorite track on the album “Get Going”:

Photo by Chris Strong