Incoming! | Neon Trees

Heads Up! — New Music Incoming!

Incoming! brings you a selection of artists that come with Fuse's highest recommendation. Click on the artist to check out their music and videos, read their wiki, and rate your top choices. Check back often for new entries. Look out ears, here comes the awesome!

This game requires Adobe Flash Player - please download from: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

Neon Trees

About This Incoming! Artist

Like their name, Neon Trees are a combination of slick pop hooks and sturdy organic rock, both melodic and hard-hitting. Their anthems of adolescent angst, longing, love lost and found, are delivered with the kind of heart-on-the-sleeve passion that only comes from hard work and commitment.

Their Mercury/Island Def Jam debut, 'In Our Youth,' is a refreshing blast of timeless rock energy and spirit that wouldn't sound out of place at any point from '60s garage-rock to 2010 emo-dance. The first single, "Animal," takes off from a Strokes-like intro into a song equally at home in the arena as on the dance floor. It's a paean to sexual longing in which singer/keyboardist/lyricist/front man extraordinaire Tyler Glenn wails, "Take a bite out of my heart tonight," and you have no reason to doubt his sincerity.

Take the hook-happy '80s new wave of the Smiths, Depeche Mode, the Cure and U2, add to it the classic-rock story-telling humanity of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Bryan Adams and leaven with the other-worldly charisma of Michael Jackson, and you begin to understand the palette Neon Trees are working from.

"I have this weird, obsessive nature of wanting to be a superhero," admits Glenn, who cites his two favorite performers as the Boss and the King of Pop. "I just want to help my friends and the people I love by saving them, only to realize they're really saving me by listening. It's all about forgiveness, love and passion, which basically sums up the whole vibe of what we're about as a band, professionally and spiritually."