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I don’t know who Tom Tom Club are but their name is thrown around enough in the very few reviews of this on Amazon that I’m going to assume that YACHT sounds a lot like them. Take that with you, put it in your pocket, remind me to look into Tom Tom Club sometime—though I have a really good feeling I won’t actually like this ’style’ of music when it’s actually from the 80’s itself.

One thing I do know is that this The Afterlife song has that B-52’s vibe like whoa. It doesn’t take a genius to point this one out, though. I’m not a fan of the B-52’s (and it’s really hard now that Family Guy has sufficiently ruined Rock Lobster for me) but The Afterlife was the first song on YACHT’s album that really caught me.

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From there it was only natural that I’m In Love With A Ripper would be the next song to grow on me. I love it more, now, than The Afterlife. I spent most of yesterday with this song stuck in my head and listening to it was no relief, I just wanted to listen to it again and again. I played it in Audiosurf and it was awesome even on that.

The rest of the album isn’t as good as these two songs but it’s pretty close. With the exception of the last track, an ‘a capella’ version’ of Psychic City meant, apparently, to demonstrate how poorly Claire L. Evans can sing when she tries hard enough, See Mystery Lights almost seems like a perfect album for a variety of situations… late night drives, summer afternoon drives, dweeby parties, sleepy time wind down… This album can do it all, I think.

Just edit out that last track. I also don’t know why the regular version of Psychic City is the most popular song off this album on iTunes. Are people nuts?