Darling New Neighbors

Comparisons fall fast and loose with the Darling New Neighbors, who play upon the soft-hard smash like The Pixies and lo-fi contemporaries, the Vivian Girls. They're eclectic without being diluted, genre-mixing without getting lost. The Neighbors (DNN) were born in 2004, when Elizabeth, a classically trained violinist with roots in the Dirty South, met bluegrasser with a heart of rock-and- roll, Amy Moreland. Drummer Karl Lundin, who teaches the children with an actual music degree (a.