Carefully calculated indie rock. Dynamic u-turns lead you from delicate riffs, to explosions of distortion and drums. This band is good, we promise. Goodbye Blue Monday might sound like a nod to '80s New Wave pioneers New Order. But GBM, a San Diego quartet whose name actually references Kurt Vonnegut's seminal Breakfast of Champions, has no desire to imitate either the Manchester Invasion (despite citing The Cure as a major influence) or the retro-cum-indie sounds of contemporaries like Franz Ferdinand and The Killers. ?- Phoenix New Times