This brother-sister duo has been getting a lot of press lately, and although no one can quite pin down what kind of music they play, the consensus is that it’s pretty damned good. This summer seems to be a pretty good for complex pop songs; first Charlotte Hatherley twists hooks and bends melodies to her iron will, and then the Fiery Furnaces go and make Frankenstein creations built out of a mish-mash of choruses and verses, apparently ripped out of the corpses of related-but-distinct songs.

Stereolab did this sort of thing occasionally on their last few albums, and the distinct parts always seemed as much like seperate songs as movements. On Blueberry Boat, though, the duo act like harried cooks in the kitchen, tossing things into the pot with wild abandon and checking occasionally to make sure it tastes good. And the amazing thing is the songs still manage to be catchy, despite all the twists and turns. A success in the kitchen! Five spoons.