The album contains elements of some of the best indie progenitors like Elliot Smith (on “Baby I’m the Man”) and Liz Phair (on “One Tree Hell.”) But mostly it is all their own: if they were to give a label to their type of music, they say, it would be “Truth or Dare Pop.” The ad-libs are genius, even punctuating a pause with a juicy burp on the sweet, Minimalist jam, “Lily’s Phone,” one of the catchiest songs on the album.

They are unashamedly in love with artists like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, and the pop element of their rock music is the most successful ingredient of this impressive outfit. They even use a vocoder on the chill jam, “Breathe You.” “I don’t wanna be outside / I just want to breathe you /Something in the way you move /Just makes me want to suck you up.” With a number of references to hooking up, it is an album to soundtrack the lust and love of our lives. But more than that, it is an album of self-healing.

It goes by in a blur, both because the average length of a song is two minutes and thirty seconds, and because you get lost in its bubblegum rock. But unlike bubblegum, this album will still have flavor after multiple listens. They are expertly crafted rock/pop songs that sounded like a hell of a lot of fun to make. There is a great deal of range on the album, though it works brilliantly as one cohesive whole, even including, in the digital version, two remakes of the opening song and vocoder single, “Breathe You.” Long live the full album format!

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