The Oranges Band

Kicking the wheels off their skateboards and heading for the beach, the boys behind the Oranges Band have made this year’s perfect summer album. Freshly squeezed with sing-alongs about riding waves and dealing with sharks, The World & Everything In It hangs a perfect 10 with a tidal wave of four guitars and a lush backdrop of Beach Boys-inspired harmonies. A major shift from the concrete streets and high-rise apartment buildings that were the canvas for the band’ s 2003 debut, All Around, the Oranges’ follow-up avoids the diminishing returns of three-chord smoky-bar anthems, releasing instead an epic breath of fresh air à la Surfer Rosa, with frontman Roman Kuebler crooning like an amped-up Morrissey determined to bring the North Shore to Baltimore.