Wearing Nudie suits and playing brightly-coated melodies with giant walls of sound, De Novo Dahl [ tickets ] are not the typical Americana Nashville-based band, nor are they the traditional Roadrunner metal act.

What they are, in fact, is a Flaming Lips and T-Rex-inspired quintet that has mastered the feel-good sing-and-dance-along scene. Hand-clapping, carefree choruses bop around like a peppy Partridge Family anthem. The silly lyrical bliss, groovy keyboard and restless tambourine simply cry out for a bouncing-ball karaoke monitor. Case in point is opening track, "Shout." Lead singer Joel Dahl leads the band in a rousing choral explosion: "Shout!/Shout!/Let all your feelings out!/No matter how you do it/You should never keep it down."

It's with similar unbridled enthusiasm that the band executes the entire 13 tracks of "Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound," a multi-layered celebration of '70s disco psychedelic excitement and vintage garage reverb. In the midst of what is usually a nonstop dance party, the band slows things down for only a couple of songs: the swaggering Lenny Kravitz-minded "Means to an End" and the acoustic lonely cowboy closer "Not to Escape."

While the entire group contributes equally on most of the choruses and especially the massive tiers of music, the shining star ends up being Serai Zaffiro, who brings a pouty, Gwen Stefani sexiness or feisty, high-pitched B-52's vocal energy to the male-female harmonies. Zaffiro adds her feminine lightness and electric sass at all the right moments.

Motivational at its best, and perhaps physically exhausting at its worst, "Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound" literally encourages just that from both the band and its listeners. That's partly because this album isn't committed to being any one thing in particular: from intense, vibrant choruses to contemplative atmospheric rock, it is anything but predictable, and everything but dull. The band's philosophy for this record was to try whatever they wanted, and that's exactly what they did--keeping the music moving at light speed, however that might be.