Review: Tetra by C2C

     C2C offers a brilliant blend of electronic beats and melodies with wonderful harmonies and acoustical instruments. The tune that hooked me was on the radio, "Down the Road". Using SoundHound I immediately found it and purchased it on iTunes. Using the snip-it previews of their other songs, i quickly fell in love with "Happy" a get-off-your-seat-and-dance gospel song (although the songs claims that it is not a gospel song, but a real song). It's not preaching anything but "you have to try to be happy", yet it holds onto the pure tones, graceful harmonies that are reminiscent of Aretha Franklin and the Blues Brothers.
     Overall this band sounds like The Avalanches and 3Oh!3 except far more varied in their genres. One song sounds like Canned Heat mixed with Daft Punk - while another song sounds like the opening of Star Trek (the new ones, with Chris Pine). Conversely you have sounds of world music, Indian and Asian instruments and patterns that are elegantly (and powerfully) aligned with guitar riffs, electronic "wubs" and chorus of voices.
    Its another DJ band, however the group has done much more than "overlap" sounds, and has intertwined and invented sounds that seem to blend naturally.
    You can get Tetra as an MP3 album or on audio CD.