Cloak And Cipher

Loosely related to Broken Social Scene, this Montreal band traffics in the same brand of anthemic, proficient indie rock. Arcade Fire's Jeremy Gara guests.

By the time Montreal’s Land Of Talk made 2008’s Some Are Lakes, songwriter/guitarist/singer Liz Powell had grown weary of flogging the voracious, power-trio-driven songs of 2006’s Applause Cheer Boo Hiss. Cloak And Cipher’s title track doesn’t revive Applause’s scrunched-together electric-guitar chords, but it shares…