Somehow we haven’t heard a peep out of the over-energized Italian hipsters, Ex-Otago, since 2007′s Tanti Saluti, the critically lauded, neon bright indie album that saw such hits as the punky, spunky “Amato the Greengrocer.” Well, there was the 2008 cover “The Rhythm of the Night,” but they didn’t write it. Still, their cover of the ’80s jam was so mature that we weren’t even sure it was by the same band. They took the original Corona version and loosened it up, but sunshine and color and cymbal splashes into it but kept it melancholy. It showed: whatever was coming up from this band was going to be polished, the work of an act at its peak. The quartet, Maurizio (vocals,keyboards); Alberto (vocals, keyboards); Simone Mosso (guitar); and Simone Riccio (drums) formed in 2003, and told Vice that their goal was to make songs “You would be whistling in the shower or driving along… We love pop…We are punk inside…”