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So, Books on Tape. Another up-and-coming indie band with an ironic name? Not quite. First of all, it's a one-man-band, and Todd Drootin's sound will creep the hell out of you before it moves you to laud him in your next blog entry or dismiss him to your friends as some second-rate so-and-so rip-off. To abuse the best music writing cliché there is, Books on Tape sound something like if Depeche Mode and Basement Jaxx...umm, had a child in a haunted house. Yes, that demented youngster would be Books on Tape, and the other kids would always look at him funny.

Dinosaur Dinosaur is Books on Tape's third full-length, offering such treats as "Noise is Political," "Fat Face," and "Tom Delay." It's experimental techno at its finest, always a hair or two away from noise, yet never alienating. Drootin coaxes the wildest sounds from his electronics, mimicking myriad instruments and even voices, and patches them together via endlessly transitory polyrhythms. Sweet cliché number two: don't judge this book by its cover. What masquerades as amateur tongue-in-cheek hipsterdom is actually one of the best indie-electronic outfits out there.

- Nate Seltenrich