Drink the Sea

The Glitch Mob forge their fidgety, spangly, gritty electronic music in Los Angeles, an aptly surreal bastion of both gleaming fantasies and dark delusions. Their 2010 debut toggles between big bangers with concussive beats ("Fortune Days") and moodier cuts that make space a priority ("Animus Vox"), while “Bad Wings” pays allegiance to both at once. Other songs, like the surging “Fistful of Silence,” find the group developing a live-wire style where synth blasts, bass drops, and percussive pileups are played rather than programmed.