On their first album for Sargent House, the Detroit-based collective delivers 12 dizzying, melody-rich math-metal songs that annihilate all templates. The move from the haunting dream pop on the album's opening title track (a candidate for song of the year) to its Swans-ian finale, “The Music Becomes a Skull” (featuring the late Mark Lanegan), is truly exhilarating. Few can match the band's kinetic energy when its numerous elements perform with breakneck momentum, as on tracks like “All Futures”, “An Iteration”, and “Faith In Medication”. There is so much happening on ULTRAPOP, and the stylistic surprises come so frantically that repeated listens are not only mandatory but awesomely rewarding.