In the '80s, synth-pop used to draw some heady, conceptual practitioners, with fringe-dwelling acts like Art Of Noise and Klaus Nomi mixing everything from avant-garde to opera into a predominantly shallow style populated by teenybopper chart-toppers. Brooklyn's Chairlift similarly digs deep for its inspiration. The groups new 'Daylight Savings EP,' while tethered to a solid core of hook-laden, keyboard driven indie-rock, opens its arms wide to encampass stabs of psychedelia and winsomely quirky, oh-so-slight vocals which evoke Kate Bush as much as Regina Spektor. The young trio knows how to skirt the edge of pretension with out falling over, and makes a chirpy, joyously brainy noise in the process.