So, hey. Take Stereolab's Tim Gane and Andy Ramsay and cross them with the High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and what do you get? One of an indie rock fan's many dream collaborations, I'm sure. Fortunately, it's not a dream anymore, and the result is Turn On.

Not surprisingly, the sound is equal parts Stereolab and the High Llamas; you've got bits of snazzy French loungotheque keyboard doodlings with a dab of tongue- in- cheek easy listening music. Sound a little too silly for your tastes? Almost seems like it'd be overpowering. It's not.

See, the Stereolab and High Llamas-esque flourishes that appear throughout the album are only about one half of what's going on here. For example, "United States of Surrealism" is a minimalist soundscape of weird keyboard effects and spooky, haunted mansion-style organ loops; "Jumbleo Palipsest" consists of a tribal drum, beat over an eerie, ambient drone; "Delimiting," on the other hand, sounds like drum-n-bass performed on Trent Reznor's keyboards circa 1989.

Turn On presents mad amounts of variety in experimentation. And Gane, Ramsay, and O'Hagan make for an impressive trio that provide music with originality, integrity and innovation, which, as you know, isn't easy to come by anymore.

-Ryan Schreiber