Chateau Crone

VINYL FORMAT. Agent Ribbons is a Sacramento trio whose music has been described as "Victorian punk" or "The White Stripes lost in Alice's Wonderland." With an old-timey aesthetic that is nonetheless thoroughly modern, they miraculously reconcile seemingly unrelated genres, sounding something like Girls in the Garage doing the Three Penny Opera. Agent Ribbons' album Chateau Crone is a tremendous step forward. With delicate violin arrangements, noisy dissonant tangents, Spector-esque vocal harmonies, and clever melodic phrasing, the album cannot commit to a genre but always manages to sound like the same brand of baroque pop.