It’s hard to type, because I’m bouncing around in my seat while I listen to Straight Talk on Raising Kids by Electric Laser People. I keep wanting to wave my hands around in silly fist pumps and knock my head from side to side.

“It’s the year 3000. Scientists have cured hunger and disease. Now they spend all their time making people look beautiful,” intones the voiceover that precedes “disco3000.” There is some excellent tongue-in-cheek funk happening on this album; the songs are beautifully serious in that hipster way that doesn’t take itself seriously at all.

“I do what I gotta do to get close so I can make out with you...This is the makeout song! Everybody start kissing!” the singer commands over a foot-tapping beat, while Space Mountain rave sounds whiz by in the background.

Straight Talk on Raising Kids is high energy and a lot of fun. This album would make an excellent soundtrack for a costume party, or for a drive along one of those coastal highways when no one’s around and you can go really fast.

Favorite Track: Track 2, “disco3000”