Imperial Teen - All Over You

Beneath the sleek, confident guitar line that powers “Overdrive,” the lead single of All Over You, another guitar marks the time more impatiently, as if the groove its locked into is the timebomb- tightness of a pre-hookup heartbeat.

Its energy isn’t nervous — after all, it’s hard to be nervous with Will Schwartz cooing come-ons like “I just wanna get you in the bed / Light you up like a cigarette” in your ear — but it is urgent.

Excited. Titillated.

“We want to make people dance and think and feel,” says Schwartz. In all of those ambitions, All Over You crushes, brought to life by four musicians who found each other in the clubs of San Francisco over three decades ago and have remained family ever since.

It is less a return from hiatus than a broadcast from the sonic utopia Imperial Teen has long ruled over, where the music is bratty and sexy and the parties don’t stop until everyone’s found euphoria.

A raveup for mind, body, and soul, best enjoyed in a dark room packed with as many sweaty bodies as possible

For Fans Of: The Dare, MUNA, The Beaches, Sparks, Hayley Williams, David Byrne, They Might Be Giants, Water From Your Eyes, The Strokes, Redd Kross