Chicago’s the Hush Sound are following up their 2006 debut today with another bouncy pop confection, Goodbye Blues. And next month the keyboard-heavy quartet head out with Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen labelmates Panic At the Disco, at which point you might see siren Greta Salpeter fueling her band’s road trip on raw foods. “Food tastes the best to me when it is in its most natural state—as raw as possible,” Salpeter tells me. “It is easy to add raw foods into my diet when the recipes are simple, fast and delicious.”

So what is the singer cooking—or rather, not cooking—up? Sweets! Besides a raw banana cream pie, one of Salpeter’s favorite desserts is a chocolate smoothie concocted with an unexpected choice of fruit. “While it may seem strange to put avocado in a chocolate smoothie, the texture of a ripe one makes the smoothie incredibly creamy and rich,” she says. “Avocado takes on the flavor of whatever you blend it with, so the chocolate and nut milk are still the main tastes.”

More from the Hush Sound can be heard on their MySpace page.