As a rule, I'm generally all for any puns involving "Monster Mash" singer Bobby "Boris" Pickett. Nailed it, Horace Pickett! As if its awesome name wasn't enough, the band actually does well at evoking the cheesy party vibe of "Monster Mash." Though the band claims that it often gets comparisons to the Kinks, They Might Be Giants and Beck, to me it couldn't be more perfectly channeling Devo. Stiffly voiced robot-funk, surging electro-pop, concerning topics such as the Milky Way and the weirdness of having a body - and all that entails. In "Phantom of Dance," perhaps Horace Pickett's most overt allusion to its namesake, an uptight party-goer is urged to give himself over to party-loving - albeit quite terrifying - apparition. Overall, Horace Pickett acquits itself very well in avoiding becoming merely a joke band. The words may be a put-on, but those grooves are as real it gets.

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