For a bedroom band, it sounds surprisingly coherent, evoking the music your big brother might have told you about if you’d been raised in the early 70′s–there’s a punk intensity, some interesting use of whistling, and plenty of minimal chord structure, but also space-fantasy vocals and guttural parts that at times even go cookie monster–I’m talking about a voice that’s between Zolar X and John Waters actress Divine when she was doing her Hi-NRG tunes like “You Think You’re a Man.”

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Though famous for his Sega-sounding synth samples, Computer Jay succeeds because he’s not really either a minimalist or an obscure gear head: he gives you some bold minimal and earlier-electronica flavors, but at his base, he has one major kick pedal foot pointed straight at the recent present.

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All the beats aren’t just bass lines and box machines–the song “Skinsuit Circuit” has chopped and screwed beats with some 1950s horns, almost like the Family Guy theme song. No comedy here though.

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