The Virgins Debut Drops Tuesday, Streaming Now

The Virgins' self-titled debut is finally almost here. You can find it in stores or wherever people buy music these days on June 3rd, but before then the band is giving you a chance to test drive the album via MySpace.

I'm a few tracks in myself and really enjoying it so far. They have a good post-punk thing going on. Has that summery feel of Vampire Weekend, but without the Ivy League education (i.e. no afro pop). "Teen Lovers" even feels a bit like a toned down -- in a perfectly fine way -- Hercules & Love Affair.

Wikipedia tells me, "The Virgins have gained popularity recently due to the CW show Gossip Girl featuring five of their songs in one episode." I believe Vice interviewed them/hyped them up a while ago too, but I didn't dig it up in my 5-second Google search.

Finally, the band did a five-song session with Daytrotter. You can read the story and download those tracks over there.