Like so many in the New York underground music scene, Galvanized draws heavily on the legacy of the early '80s, but the Lower East Side quartet achieves their own unique brand of smirking groove-heavy electro-pop alchemy. The recipe is built around the slashing rhythms of British art-punk, with guitar figures that sometimes recall Wire's three classic late '70s albums (notorious Wire copycats Elastica also offer a fair point of comparison), and the robotic keyboard vamps of American New Wave, a la the The Cars.