So, I know that a lot of old TMBG fans departed around Apollo 18 and that even more of them waved goodbye with the release of John Henry. Well, it's okay to come back now. But bear in mind that though a lot of you may wistfully recall the early days of the MIDI Giants, that band is never coming back.

On Factory Showroom, the music is damn near as infectious as is was circa Lincoln. The only difference is that instead of MIDI instruments and primitive Macintosh systems, there's an actual band playing the music.

The album opens with the polyester, rugburn, shag carpeting sounds of "S-E-X-X-Y," a song which I can only describe as a tribute to the music of 70's blaxploitation films (i.e. Shaft, Big Bad Mama, Blacula, and the less popular Avenging Disco Godfather). And you just kind of have to hear it. I didn't really get into the album, though, until the second and third tracks ("Till My Head Falls Off" and "How Can I Sing Like A Girl?," respectively) kicked in. Both of these songs are poppy beyond imagination, and lyrically, are typical TMBG songs in all their silly glory.

Other notable tracks on the Factory Showroom include "Your Own Worst Enemy," "Pet Name," "I Can Hear You" (recorded without electricity on a 1898 Edison wax cylinder recording studio phonograph) and a new recording of the amazing "James K. Polk," a song which you may remember from the Istanbul (Not Constantinople) single. It now includes a singing saw solo.

-Ryan Schreiber