After forming at Harvard, this retro-pop duo signed to the Neptunes' Star Trak records, giving Pharrell Williams his very own Vampire Weekend. Love the Future is tricked out with snazzy synth and string orchestrations — and singer D.A. Wallach's high, elastic croon. His cocksure lyrics — on "Bebe Buell," he plays an upwardly mobile rocker who tells a common girl, "You're my Puerto Rican Pamela Lee" — are pure callow, tongue-in-cheek provocation. The end result isn't quite as lovable as they'd like. But the Beach Boys-like brightness of "Time to Unwind" or the pretty, Fleetwood Mac-ian seduction of "Sleep" make it hard to deny their melodic gifts.