There are many words that popped into my head while listening to the third full-length release from The Albertans, but these three stick out especially: synths, melodrama, and night time. Or maybe just synths, synths, synths. There is a lot of synth on this record. The band has been compared to MGMT, which is kind of tough to hear unless you filtered it through some sort of calming machine and took the hooks away. Throughout Dangerous Anything, those airy synths are accompanied by airy vocals, evoking visions like staring up at stars in the night sky, mostly. One standout is the gently catchy “The Late Late Show,” complete with some pretty vocals that lead into a half-way-through turnaround to some noisy guitars and drums, before switching back to the poppy riff that started it off. The closer, “Black Moon,” is a long, spooky, mostly instrumental track that would make a good soundtrack to walking through the desert at night while you’re really, really high. Dangerous Anything is not really dangerous, and it sometimes gets hard to figure out where one song ends and another begins (the constant synths sort of melt together), but there are some hidden gems on it. (Ernest Jenning Record Co., ernestjenning.com/band_thealbertans.htm) Matt Williams