Ears Wide Open: Standing Shadows

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Standing Shadows want to be a big rock band. It’s apparent from every outsized melody and synth-drenched soundscape on the L.A. quartet’s debut album “Five Years of Darkness,” released earlier this year, if not from their live show, which is heavy on smoke, strobes and in-your-face volume. The brainchild of David Miltenberger and Dan Silver, joined by Mike Greco and Michael Ascolese, Standing Shadows’ electro-rock toggles between Floydian edginess and the hyper-emotional bombast you might hear from the likes of Shiny Toy Guns (though never quite that preening). If they’re going for Muse, they’re headed in the right direction.

||| Download: “One Way Ride” and “One Way Ride (gdub Remix)”
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||| Live: Standing Shadows play Monday at the Troubadour with Death Kit, Oh My Stars and Scraping for Change. The show benefits the youth music program City Sound Drum Corps.

||| Watch: After the jump, the video for “Get Together”: