I was wondering how a bunch of D’Angelo-obsessed California boys got my email address (apart from, perhaps, all those D’Angelo fan fiction websites to which I regularly contribute), when someone kindly pointed out that Pop Etc. is simply the new name for The Morning Benders, who have decided to swap their sweeping, sun-drenched baroque pop for ultra smooth R&B jams, pumped up with the occasional cartoonish electro beat. If YouTube comments are to be trusted as an accurate measure of public opinion, TMB fans are up in arms about the switch in name and sound, but I can selfishly declare that I’m loving the material that has come out of this untrendy shift in direction. Plus, it takes a lot of balls to write another ‘Hungry Like The Wolf.’ Get the introductory 11-track mixtape for free at the below address.