Michelle Shiers on March 10th, 2015

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Cincinnati indie-pop duo Bad Veins are due to release their fourth album, “The Mess Remade” (the follow-up to 2012’s “The Mess We’ve Made”), on March 17 via Dynamite Music. Benjamin Davis and Jake Bonta (sans now-departed drummer Sebastien Schultz) are the main members of Bad Veins, but there is also a third — a 1973 Pioneer reel-to-reel tape recorder they have named Irene. What started out as just messing with sounds in a bedroom (like most bands do) has now turned into a powerful twosome who have toured with St. Lucia, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Two Door Cinema Club, to name a few. Bad Veins, who released their second album on L.A.-based Dangerbird Records back in 2009, have unveiled a music video for their dramatic and cinematic cover of “Rainbow Connection,” and if that isn’t enough, the video also features Muppets. Davis has a matter-of-fact vocal style at times reminiscent Max Bemis (Say Anything) and other times a more real Brandon Flowers. Through his choice of telephone/megaphone/microphone, Davis’ voice goes from yearning, to harmonized storytelling, to declaring, and then back to honest every time. Bad Veins do the indie-guitar-pop-synth combo quite well with an array of different instruments, quirky rock hooks, and a tinge of orchestral new wave.

||| Stream: “Kindness”

||| Also: Download four Bad Veins songs via NoiseTrade.

||| Previously: “Gold and Warm” (2009)