I wasn't all that taken with Dan Deacon when he came onto the national scene with 2007's Spiderman of the Rings. Clearly incredibly talented and doing interesting things with traditional composition in Baltimore electronic dance freak outs, my listening experiences were rarely rewarding. I guess you need to hear that stuff in a sweaty club. Anyway, I was really turned on by Pitchfork's short documentary about part of the recording process of his new record, Bromst. It looked and sounded like he was taking a giant leap forward. I've spent a week with the record and I must say that I am beyond impressed. I've not heard anything quite like this (Max Tundra comes closer, but he makes pop records (some of the best on the planet) and this anything but pop music.

"Snookered" is the track that has me avoiding doing work and keeping me up at night. It's technical and emotional and epic and sad and hopeful and has the finest phoneme-based funked up breakdown I've ever heard. You've got to hear this track. Put on some cans and take a bus ride to anywhere.