Kevin Bronson on February 24th, 2015

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Don’t you love it when artists coin nifty catchphrases for their sound? Makes our job so much easier. L.A.-based Stefan Pruett calls his music “darkwave pajama pop,” leaving you to solve the mystery of whether they’re flannel or silk. His first song “Carefree” is of an interesting fabric, nodding to ’80s post-punk and modern EDM/synth-pop. Pruett’s vocals recall the weight of singers like Paul Banks (Interpol), Tom Smith (Editors) and Harry McVeigh (White Lies), and here they are oddly/interestingly backgrounded by a cherubic chorus. The song carries the title of Pruett’s hometown, Carefree, Ariz., where, he explained in an interview here, he grew up with a congenital heart defect that has required three open-heart surgeries and a pacemaker. He has taken life’s heaping helping of irony and run with it, though. He has an album in the works.

||| Download: “Carefree”