Without Gravity

Scour the Internet for information on Without Gravity and a lot of comparisons crop up: Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne, Nick Drake, My Morning Jacket. Weirdly, they all fit. The band, a four-piece from Reykjavik, traffics in a now-familiar lane of melancholy that, as of its full-length debut in 2005, had yet to wear out its welcome on triple-A radio and the iPods of attentive listeners in the 30-plus bracket. But if its sound isn't as determined to jolt and mystify as that of its countrymen -- the willfully eccentric Björk and Sigur Rós, specifically -- it is no less nimbly assem...