Rainbow Arabia marry electro-acoustic dance sounds and world music with the youthful energy of punk using an array of Lebanese synthesizers and drum machines, serpentine guitar lines, live percussion, and Siouxsie-esque vocals that are at times war calls while beautifully spectral at others.

UK label Merok (Crystal Castles, The Teenagers, and Klaxons) released their EP “the Basta” in fall 2008, while Manimal Vinyl (Bat For Lashes, Hecuba) released it in the US. In their brief existence, the ...