Claude says:Under The Influence of Giants arrived in 2006 with synth-pop swagger and rock guitars tangled together, and you found your way to them in early 2008—a record that clearly stuck around your rotation for a couple of years, with Ah Ha and Stay Illogical pulling the most replays. This is the kind of band that sounds like they're having fun wrestling with contradictions: electronic gloss meeting real instruments, hooks that shouldn't work but do.