Every week, Hype Monitor wades through the most buzzed-about bands all across the Internet.

The Band: Los Campesinos
Th Buzz: Wacky Wales collective spit out songs as bright and varied as day-glo paint.
Listen If: You have a serious sugar deficiency, and need songs with big hooks and indelible melodies
Key Track: The synthy rush of "We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed," where cascading keys do battle with sawing strings and big bursts of guitar

The Band: Benoit Pioulard
The Buzz: Oregon folkie makes music that's as dark and mysterious as curls of smoke.
Listen if: You have a thing for men with soft voices, or need music to drift to sleep by.
Key Track: "Ragged Tint," where Pioulard's cotton ball voice bounces atop tumbleweed guitars.

The Band: The Welcome Wagon
The Buzz: Kinfolk of Sufjan Stevens continue his quest to make banjos.
sexy, writing Appalachian gospel songs that are both spare and stirring.
Listen If: You haven't been to church in a few years, and want to make amends with a Sunday morning hoedown.
Key Track: The uber-Christian "But For You Who Fear My Name," where a gang chorus, blurting brass and twinkles of guitar make for a modern-day hymn.