If you go all the way back to the beginning of this blog, you will find this band on my list of best releases of 2008. Little did I know that it was their third album. The media covering the Alaskan connection to Sarah Palin put them on my map. Without that coverage, I missed an album last year, and I'll have to get it to trace the evolution of the band's sound to this one. "Am. Ghetto" is a much more produced product than '08's "Censored Colors," and if you know the Ol' Mad Rocker, that can be a good thing. This record has a funky, groovy, slinky feel to it, like some of the best80's danceable new wave. The guy has a higher register vocal and at times I thought it was a female, so much so I had to scan the credits more than once. This is good eclectic, intelligent pop music, along the lines of the Scissor Sisters but without all the glam. And it's too damn short at 36+ minutes...
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