Claude says:Young the Giant came out of Irvine in 2004 and broke through a decade later with sticky alt-rock singles like "My Body" and "Cough Syrup" — the quintet led by Sameer Gadhia's elastic voice has been steadily expanding since. Victory Garden landed this year as fresh indie rock with melodic backbone: guitars that shimmer and lean, choruses that stick without pandering. You grabbed it immediately in May and haven't let up — "Evergreen" and "Different Kind of Love" have become fixtures, but you're cycling through the whole thing, eight tracks deep.