Telepathe - "Dance Mother" (IAMSOUND)

Dance Mother is a particularly interesting title for this album for the following reason: it's not that dancey. While the opening and closing tracks of "So Fine" and "Drugged" are fairly club friendly, the rest of the album isn't. It sounds more like something you can sit in your room and enjoy while smoked out of your mind.

Each song is unique and does stand on it's own. But as a whole, Dance Mother has a sort of collective sound. Essentially, each track sounds different from the next but collectively they make sense together. Take "Chrome's On It" (track 2) and "Devil's Trident" (track 3) for instance. While both tracks sound drastically different from each other, they are placed in sequence. And it just works; there are no musical ear sores on this album.

Well, maybe one - the singing. At first, the vocals on this album seem like the typical vocals of most any other Brooklyn band: flighty, faint, and female. Though all the singing sounds exactly the same on the entire album, that's actually the problem. Some vocal variation definitely would've enhanced the overall tone of the record.

Record Label: IAMSOUND
Release Date: 4/14/2009

-Lilly Ryden