The latest Origami Ghosts outing finds the band in full cook mode, shuffling all of its oddball and twee elements in and out of a bubbling anti-power pop sound. Kinda like if Heavy Vegetable played Shins songs. Those references are long-in-the-tooth, but so is the kitschy, itchy of the band.

Origami Ghosts A Fine Time to Talk About Nothing (self-released)

Short, unpolished gems that would quickly lose their charm if too much craft intruded. That's a bit unfair, actually, as it took a lot of effort to sound this rough-hewn, but more conventional chord resolution and standard song construction is totally antithetical to the Origami Ghosts ideal.

Perhaps a more specific reference would be Rob Crow playing songs from the poppier side of the Mekons catalog, but even that fails to capture the strangely innocent-and-so-very-not of this set. The world is full of dangerous wonder.

And Origami Ghosts is happy to experience all of it with its own style intact. Profound in a surprisingly rambling fashion, this album has charm for miles. Bask in the glory, and glory in the moments of transcendence. Your ship is boarding now.

Jon Worley