So Many Dynamos - Flashlights

Artist: So Many Dynamos
Album: Flashlights
Genre: Pants Exploding Dance Rock/Chaotic Pop
Country of origin: United States
Year: 2006

Track Listing
1. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
2. Search Party
3. Progress
4. Home Is Where The Box Wine Is
5. How High The Moon
6. In Every Direction
7. Inventing Gears
8. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
9. We Vibrate, We Do
10. In Our Sleep
11. Let's Move Mountains

“There’s this band that I love from East St. Louis, Illinois called So Many Dynamos, and they’re this heavy, fantastic, prog rock dance band. They’ve got their heads as much in the The Mahavishnu Orchestra as they do the Talking Heads. They’re really doing that bizarre fall on the floor dance band fusion thing, but hitting really hard. They’re fucking awesome!” - Chris Walla, Death Cab For Cutie

"Flashlights" is SMD's sophomore record. The band's unique brand of chaotic pop has been sharpened, refined. The songs are catchier, noisier, dancier, smarter, often weaving in and out, Frogger-style, between anthematic choruses and epileptic freakouts. They've harnessed the urgency of their live performances and also thrown some unexpected instruments into the fold (4 piece horn section, 30 piece choir, toy accordion, banjo, thumb piano, etc.)

So Many Dynamos are by far one of the best bands I've seen live. Their music is infectious and you can't help but break out into spastic gyrations whilst listening. Their lyrics are clever and intelligent.

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