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Jookabox is. Jookabox is from Indianapolis. Jookabox is four albums deep. Jookabox sees the Eyes of the Fly. Jookabox is a bit paranoid. Jookabox is very much paranoid. Jookabox causes paranoia. Jookabox is more than jittery. Jookabox wonders what the hell is going on here. Jookabox looks not quite right. Jookabox makes us shift. Jookabox sounds like Garbage Pail Kids. Jookabox is not clean. Jookabox is music. Jookabox is too busy to clean. Jookabox is busy. Jookabox is without author. Jookabox is not David Adamson. Jookabox is not us. Jookabox is in pieces. Jookabox is not easy. Jookabox is rotting. Jookabox is recursive. Jookabox is slime, writhing, and ooze. Jookabox anticipates danger any minute now. Jookabox is electric and sings. Jookabox does not know. Jookabox is dark. Jookabox is looking into the light. Jookabox will wake up. Jookabox is schizo. Jookabox is whatever the hell you think it is. Jookabox is in a lake. Jookabox is gibberish. Jookabox is threatened. Jookabox cannot wake up. Jookabox is not quite comfortable in this place. Jookabox is threatened. Jookabox is lucid. Jookabox is chemicalized. Jookabox writhes. Jookabox sucks. Jookabox sunk. Jookabox is the Eyes of the Fly. Jookabox is no more. Jookabox lives forever.

Dead Zone Boys, the third album from Jookabox (Indianapolis-born David "Moose" Adamson and Co.), is love story meets psychedelic zombie-musical. The zombie part came easy: Moose grew up on the east side of Indianapolis in the 90s, an area plauged by constant recession, pandemic homicide, and racial tension. It was this frantic energy and violence that infused itself into the Jookabox experience while musically nodding to early Ween, Black Sabbath, and fellow Indiana native, the King of Pop.

This is the fifth in a series of vinyl-only releases. The series, entitled Unusual Animals, pairs Asthmatic Kitty roster artists with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows. Each record includes a beautiful rendering of one of Mother Nature's stranger inhabitants by illustrator Jared Chapman. This limited-edition series expands the Asthmatic Kitty family to include some unexpected folks.

Ropechain braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of rock-n-roll 2 trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening.