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Irish piano rock quartet La Rocca are rooted in the indie pop underground, but their brash version of pop bombast is part of a long strain of self-consciously epic rockers that stretches from Queen and the Electric Light Orchestra through U2 and Simple Minds to contemporaries like Coldplay and Keane. Armed with the big, booming voice of singer Bjorn Baillie and Nick Haworth's twinkling piano, La Rocca are an indie band with ambitious aspirations. Although three of the four members of La Rocca -- lead singer and guitarist Bjorn Baillie, his brother, bassist Simon Baillie, and drummer Alan Redmond -- hail from small towns near Dublin, Ireland; the group actually formed in Cardiff, Wales while its members were attending Cardiff University. (Keyboardist Nick Haworth, the band's sole Englishman, is from rural Lancashire, just across the Irish Sea.) Named after a bar in the city of Bristol where the group played an early gig, La Rocca released a self-titled EP on the tiny Irish indie Wet Cla...