Bad Veins - or the trio of Benjamin Davis, Sebastien Schultz and a 1973 reel-to-reel player named Irene - may come from the humble midwest, but their music is nothing short of epic in scope. The band's self-titled debut is packed with three minute dramatic opuses. Davis' low bellow pushes each tunes' driving guitars, oft-pulsing synths and car-crash percussion into a hugely catchy frenzy.

This isn't the type of music two men can make alone with their own human hands; here's where Irene comes to play. The hulking piece of machinery plays upwards of 70 extra tracks, meaning that, yes, you may as well be listening to an orchestra of 72.

The band's most often thrown in a bag with The Killers, but where that Las Vegas ego machine nary matches ambition with memorable hooks, you won't come away from Bad Veins with any less than 10 melodies dueling in your head. And guess what? They're all huge.

MP3 Session Downloads : 

Bad Veins - Gold & Warm
Bad Veins - The Lie

Recorded and mixed by Jeff DuPont
Filmed and edited by Doug Fellegy, Joe Wallace, and Michelle Castillo