Yourself and The Air

James Kozar

Yourself and the Air: Soft, introspective guitar pop.

Details

With Thing One, 9 p.m. Monday, July 20, at Notsuoh, 314 Main, 713-409-4750 or www.myspace.com/notsuohmusic.

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More About

• Erick Crosby
• Modest Mouse
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Indie Rock and Indie Pop

Precious and precocious in equal measures, Chicago five-piece Yourself and The Air has benefited from a groundswell of hometown support that is just starting to translate into national exposure. Newly equipped with a prominent booking agent and towing the glowing EP Friends of All Breeds, the band is thriving in a low-key sort of way that befits such soft, introspective guitar-pop. Beneath so much bedtime twinkling, the songs recall several beloved bands, from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to Modest Mouse; "Heart Strings" actually sounds like the late cult outfit 764 Hero. Mostly, though, the EP finds Yourself and The Air ironing out the lingering '90s wrinkles in its sound and settling on something more organic and whimsical. Erick Crosby's unique voice snakes comfortably around the band's stop-start dynamics and cloudy extras, and a recent Daytrotter session shows increasing promise for the band's malleable delivery.