'Lysine', the first single, starts with just her and the most basic possible melody before Ben gradually adds glitches and stuttering keyboards and she's beautifully nimble singing the arching melody of 'Acorns', overdubbing her own harmony while Ben adds a shuffling rhythm track and airy (well, weak-lipped) brass. No offense to Ben's work, but where his voice fits into the music, Becky's soars on it though not exactly a diva in power or emotional range, she has an attractive voice that adds the right amount of warmth to the electronics. But he also invites his sister, Becky, to sing.

Jacobs' first album and singles were instrumentals, but here, all but one of the tracks has vocals- mostly by Jacobs, whose high, mellifluous voice resembles Scritti Politti's Green Gartside or, uh, Prince. Under all the chaos, these songs are straightforward and brutally catchy, just about every one of them anchored to a great hook and an intriguing voice. Genre-hopping may be old hat by now, but Jacobs' music is so disorienting that the abrupt cuts on, say, 'M.B.G.A.T.E.' are still startling and bizarre: where did that club beat suddenly come from, and what's with the horns? But there's another reason he keeps catching you off-guard: Jacobs is ostensibly writing pop songs.

Which isn't to ignore the subtleties of the accordions, guitars, trumpets, and other live instruments mixed into the album- all of them played by Jacobs himself. He namechecks a Yes album on one song, so it's not surprising when he overdubs himself into a Rick Wakeman who has eight hands and good taste the flurry of keyboards on 'Fuerte' blows through like a swarm of candy-coated insects. He seizes every strain of pop music and every instrument he can think of, wrapping them in layers of synths and drum programming. Jacobs comes across like a dry, witty Englishman mixed with a three-year-old on a slowburn sugar high. And it's all because of the enthusiasm and sheer joy that electronic artist Max Tundra (né Ben Jacobs) puts in every note of his second album, Mastered by Guy at the Exchange.

So many synths, beeps, beats, glitches, horns, hooks, voices.

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