Avi Buffalo: Avi Buffalo

It's an odd love song that's entitled Summer Cum and implores its addressee to "leave all your stains with me", but such are the winningly off-beam ways of Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg. A recent high school graduate from California, he and his band trade in yearning, Byrdsian jangle-pop primed to make the heart swoon, while tempering the air of wistfulness with a healthy dose of lyrical crudity: see alsoWhat's in it For?, a tale of relationship miscommunication, where he movingly compares his paramour's lips to "little pieces of bacon". Rarely have the vagaries of teenage desire been so deftly and melodiously delineated.