YACHTSee Mystery Lights
(DFA)
**** (out of 5)
On their new album, the synthy dance-punk duo YACHT asks a big philosophical question right out of the gate: “Will we go to heaven or will we go to hell?” And then they answer it right back: “It’s my understanding that neither are real.” Of course, they follow up this track with a song called “The Afterlife,” which complicates their position somewhat — but apparently, if this song is anything to go by, there is no heaven and no hell, but simply a limbo-like region where everyone spends eternity dancing to music that sounds like LCD Soundsystem crossed with The Spoons.
It’s hard to know how seriously to take this album — are titles like “You Can Live Anywhere You Want” and “We Have All We’ve Ever Wanted” meant ironically? Seriously? Or does the tone occupy the same limbo-like in-between region I mentioned in the first paragraph? My guess is the former title is sincere, and the second is ironic, but since just about every song on See Mystery Lights comes complete with some inventive hook (the equalizer-bustingly loud woodblock “THOCK!”s that punctuate “Don’t Fear the Darkness” are particularly ear-catching) or a merry bit of lyrical nonsense (like the talking kitchen in “Psychic City”), I’m too busy dancing to be bothered to debate the matter.
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