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Songs We Love: Cende, 'What I Want'

The tightly-wound single from the Brooklyn supergroup, featuring members of Porches and LVL UP, never stays in one place too long.
Cende's new album, <em>#1 Hit Single, </em>comes out May 26.

I am usually one to avoid bands with jokey names, but Cende snuck in with pretty, emo-tinged power pop before I could roll my eyes. (For the curious: The joke in.) The band is a Brooklyn supergroup of sorts, born of the members' cohabitation at a house venue called David Blaine's The Steakhouse and featuring guitarist and singer Cameron Wisch, who drums in Porches, and drummer Greg Rutkin from . (The two are also joined by Bernard Casserly on bass and Dave Medina on guitar.)

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