Seafoam Walls

Founded in 2014 in Miami by singer and guitarist Jayan Bertrand, Seafoam Walls expanded with the addition of bassist Joshua Ewers, multi-instrumentalist Dion Kerr and drummer Josue Vargas. The band's debut album, XVI, got a boost in national attention when Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth released it on his Daydream Library Series label. This attracted the attention of outlets such as Afropunk, Spin and Pitchfork, who were uniform in their admiration. But even with the band's apt and efficient genre-branding, XVI remains otherworldly and addictive — kind of like the city that spawned it.