Greg Wiz was half of Daydreams and Curry, whose Youth and Royalty was one of the best albums to come out of New Orleans in 2001. He moved to New York City a few years back, and on Telescope, he and fellow New Orleanian Dave Rosser have made an album that shares Daydreams and Curry’s knack for subtle, smart contemporary power pop. The songs lay acoustic and electric guitars, a Fender Rhodes electric piano and a variety of odd instruments over looped drums to give the songs texture as well as melody. The mark of the band’s success is how quickly unconventional layerings of sound seem not only conventional but natural. If the songs were nothing but texture, though, Telescope would be Massive Attack. Telescope’s songs have interesting choruses that condense the last 40 years of pop/rock history with a “Who? Me?” sense of humor and entitlement. The resulting album seems simply clever at first, but it becomes harder to resist with each listen. After a handful of listens, I was briefly convinced “Barcelona” might be the coolest song I’ve heard this year, then I was convinced the glam “Action” could be.