Team William

Team William came together in Ninove, Belgium, in 2006, and their self-titled debut, released on the Keremos label in 2009, sounds like a band raised on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Wolf Parade that decided to play both at once, at full tilt. Floris De Decker sang and played guitar, Arne Sunaert worked the keyboards, and Bert Moerman on bass and Douwe Van Maele on drums did their best to keep the whole contraption from flying apart.

Indie pop is the tag, but this is the rowdy, elbows-out end of it: songs that lurch and bounce, keyboards squiggling over jittery guitars, and a singer who sounds delighted to be only just hanging on. "You have my heart okay" and "Wonderyear III", both from the debut, are the ones that made it onto the countdowns.

The original rhythm section was gone by 2010, and bassists and drummers came and went for a while after that, with Nils Tijtgat and Matthias Dillen joining in 2014. De Decker and Sunaert stayed at the center through it all, and a second album, Drama, finally arrived in 2015, a year before the band called it a day.

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