Call me a spoilsport, but doesn’t “Chuleta For You” just sound like a slightly more talkative Plaid? After you get past that initial salvo, the going gets much better. Dandy bears down for the three-song swing of “Video Taceo,” “Arabs in the Desert,” and album highlight “Samba Lübeck” in which pounding minimalism keeps pushing back the “gotta get up” refrain. The closer, “Casper House” is a marvel as well, featuring a disorientingly oscillating synth that sounds as though its moving on a boomerang’s trajectory. Give this one a few spins, with a little practice it’ll come right back to you.

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[Todd Burns]