Kevin Bronson on February 27th, 2015

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Art-pop duo The Controversy released their second album, “Don’t Count on Me,” this month, and it includes the single “Queen of Chinatown,” a heartrending meditation about the double life of a drag queen. The song makes for compelling cinema, too, in the video directed by the band, Laura Vall and Thomas Hjorth, and filmed by the band and Mehdi Hassine. Whether relying on synths or organic instrumentation, the album as a whole boasts beautifully restrained production—witness the song “You Know” and its tender cello, or the Barcelona native Vall cooing “Luna, lunita, llevame contigo” amid shimmering guitars in “Luna” and painterly textures, making for heady, slow-motion psychedelic trip.

||| Live: The Controversy celebrate their album release with a show tonight at the Satellite along with Green Gerry, Death Valley Girls and Charlie Bird.