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Sitting in their practice space, passing around a bargain-size bag of knock-off Captain Crunch, Salt Lake City natives Indigo Plateau take turns trying to classify their sound to me in a way that reads well on paper. “What really kills me,” laughs front man Evan Pack, “is when I have to say ‘Indie Rock’ to someone so that they’ll understand what I’m talking about.” A few rounds of cereal handfuls later, we reach the consensus that their style can be triangulated somewhere between the instrumentation of Explosions in the Sky, the feeling of Beach House, and the drive of Interpol. However, being music collectors and admitted fan-boys of these artists themselves, the comparisons are only comfortably made to explain what they feel to be a shared attraction to sounds that stir the listener’s emotions. “When I listen to music, it’s to give me context to bigger questions,” says Pack. “I like music that I can exist in.” For their debut EP The Heights, Indigo Plateau play the soundtrack to the kind of heavy-hearted, yet hopeful thinking that usually overtakes the young as they confront life’s bigness and uncertainty. Pack’s voice, being somewhat calm and faded in the album, calls out shadowy questions like the inner voice of a troubled mind. Still, the darkness is combatted with the band’s mystic and almost oceanic tones—creating a provocative, almost Rorschach test of a musical experience....