Idolator

King of Prussia are not from that benighted town of malls—they're from Athens, Ga., and are on the reawakened Kindercore label. While a few people picked up on them when they put out album earlier this year, they deserve another boost. It may be a little hard to get over the fact that they sound like the Decemberists, but try—and then realize, depending on how you feel about that band, that King of Prussia either a) work a similar but more ADD and equally mature thing as Meloy and Co., or b) have all the musical ambition of the Decemberists without Meloy's smug eleven-year-old-nerd thing. The coda of "Spain in the Summertime," which is on the band's MySpace page, is like a hand massage from a sorta cute Scientology volunteer. And we've posted two MP3s below: "Misadventures of the Campaign Kids" is about young love while electioneering (think Radiohead if Thom Yorke didn't have the political sensibilities of a petulant college sophomore), while "Terrarium" is beautiful and shifts on a dime:

King of Prussia - Misadventures of the Campaign Kids [MP3]
King of Prussia - Terrarium [MP3]
King of Prussia [Myspace]