Stop Motion Poetry hail from Modesto, CA, a small bright-eyed town in California’s agricultural heartland. Like the city the Beggs brothers call home, Stop Motion Poetry’s music aspires to greater things than the at-a-glance sum of its parts.

It is both accessible and intelligent, while managing somehow to avoid their evil twins: obsequiousness and impenetrability. With their 2012 debut album, Stop Motion Poetry proved their earnest optimism and old-soul sensibility had legs enough to carry them into the headphones of the world. Early looks at their new material seem to indicate a bold jump to the next logical step: it’s what one would hope they would do next, despite the comfortable jeans of their debut.

Stop Motion Poetry is a band to watch. These young scions of California’s cornucopia are brimming with fresh yet familiar sounds, unafraid to reinvent themselves, looking forward to the future with smart, bright eyes.