Title: “Cast Away”

Artist: Strange Talk

Label: Wind-up Records

Released: 04/29/14

What to know: First released Down Under last year via Sony Music Australia, Strange Talk’s “Cast Away” is now available in the U.S. via Wind-up Records. The U.S. release was self-produced by the band, mixed by Eliot James (Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club) and Tony Hoffer (Ladyhawke, M83, Phoenix), and features four tracks that did not appear on the earlier Australian release.

Standouts:

• “Cast Away”

• “Falling in Love”

• “Eskimo Boy”

• “Young Hearts”

• “So So LaLa”

• “Is it Real?”

• “Climbing Walls”

“Morning Sun”