Autodrama

The L.A. band Puro Instinct evaporates some of the shoegaze fog around their debut for some tentative bigger pop maneuvers.

When Puro Instinct bubbled up with its curiously addictive debut Headbangers In Ecstasy in 2011, it salvaged a throwback sound that the mass movement of ’80s worship had yet to rediscover: thick, tropic-steamy dream pop, coasting along trance-like guitar lines and a shimmering drum machine, with cool, breezy…

LA duo create summer magic on their second album.

The early story on the Kaplan sisters, Piper and Skylar, focused primarily on their youth with occasional mention of their spacious synth pop. As teenage siblings, Puro Instinct made modest waves with 2011's Headbangers in Ecstasy (with help from Ariel Pi