Maritime

Despite lineup changes, fitful touring, and several members welcoming their first children, Maritime didn’t spend its formative years struggling on record. Instead, it yielded three solid albums of sweetly mature guitar-pop that’s uplifting even when it’s sad. The band signed to Dangerbird Records—home to Silversun Pickups and Liam Gallagher’s Oasis offshoot Beady Eye—for its latest album, 2011’s Human Hearts. Filled with shimmering guitars and new wave-flavored hooks, it’s a bold and assured effort, and one that finds the band stepping out of the shadow of singer Davey Von Bohlen’s former—and now sort of, kind of reunited—band, The Promise Ring, and into a blinding new light. 

Updated 02/29/2012