My Morning Jacket - touch me i'm going to scream part one, 2008

"This odd, electro-pop concoction, which is rhythmic and yet light on its feet, bass-heavy and yet fragile, invites obvious comparisons to The Flaming Lips, who could perhaps add a little more quirk and character to a generally agreeable song such as this one (though, in all fairness, James is a better singer than Wayne Coyne). It ain’t bad once you get used to it – the band’s infatuation with funk reveals itself in some of the one-note melody lines and the pimped out synthesizers, but the delivery is almost intentionally robotic, as if to depict a world in which the touch of a fellow human is a rare commodity. The middle of the song is the best part, when Patrick Hallahan‘s drums start to thicken a bit and the song takes on more of a “live band” feel, but it’s still more of a mid-tempo in-studio concoction that feels like it might work better later in the album."