I'm unabashedly in love with Archie Bronson Outfit's Derdang Derdang. I posted two songs from it here and even included Dead Funny in my drifted away playlist. I knew, however, that their album before Derdang, Fur, was not very good. So I was worried: would their new album be good and live up to the unrealistically high expectations Derdang's purely consistent awesomeness set for me, or would it fail those expectations and just be merely OK, or worse, would it just suck really bad?

It's clear from the first thirty seconds of album opener Magnetic Warrior that this is not Derdang Derdang. It's basically a relentless assault on your ears, a dramatic opening statement meant to completely obliterate any thought you had that Coconut might have been Derdang Part Two. He's not singing about a woman, or at least I don't think he is, or anything at all really, probably. I'm not even sure what Magnetic Warrior is, you know?

Maybe that's part of the genius of the album, how almost indiscernible a lot of the lyrics are, with vocals buried under static and echo. Derdang was an album with a message (and that message was "love sucks balls but damn women are fun to play with") and Coconut isn't, at least as far as I can tell. This is a collection of songs, good songs that are fun to listen to, but is there meaning to it? Is there meaning to anything, ever?

I just read a review of this album that suggested there are strains of psychedelia in it, and maybe it's because I've saturated myself with so much psychedelia over the years or just because so much music I listen to has subtle strains of psychedelia in it, I just don't see it. If psychedelia means your music is echo-y, static-y, and "swirly" in some ways, then this song is clearly psychedelic, but that beat, that almost disco-like feel to it, what does that make it?

Is Coconut the first disco-psychedelia record? Are we witnessing the further evolution of music here? After years of same-y bullshit is it Archie Bronson Outfit who are bringing us the first clear example of what music in the 21st century became? Disco-punk-psychedelia?

The 21st century fucking rules.