You Think You’re a Comic! By Gus Dapperton is an Indie-Pop/Synth-Pop EP with four tracks. The entire album start to finish has strong vibes of late 1900’s music with a sort of funky groove to the song with a combination of modern electric synth themes mixed in. The first song, “Prune, You Talk Funny” starts off with very upbeat, distorted guitar chords with a slight accelerando leading up to the vocals. Then Dapperton comes in with very catchy vocals, all explaining the idea of noticing the little things you notice about someone you love and how these things make your feelings for that person so much stronger. This is one of the most upbeat songs on the EP, it’s all about the process of falling in love rather than falling out of it. The second song, “I Have Lost My Pearls,” is a bit slower than the first song with more groove to it and a haunting background part throughout. Even Dapperton’s vocals are more strained, giving a very ominous vibe to the song. This song is more about how if you love someone you shouldn’t be reluctant about it. Be wholehearted in it and protect that love and the person you’re with. The first verse is all about not doing things to upset her, such as things like “Please don’t speak / Don’t make a peep and wake her vacant spark […] Just leave her be a ways away from harm / Stop with the gawking.” This strong message combined with the haunting background and vocals come together to create a provacating and somewhat striking idea within the music. The third song under the name of “Amadelle With Love” has more of a pop-groove feel than the others, making it very catchy. In contrast to the very upbeat, catchy feel to the piece, the lyrics themselves are fairly sad, it’s all about how his love has faded and how “I’m to blame for but once or more / And I’m to blame for but lost allure / With love, its aim to make me move / You used to make me move.” That bridge is very compelling in itself because it has a sense of parallelism and once again is very catchy even though the lyrics themselves are very sad. The last song on the EP, titled “Beyond Amends”, is the slowest song of the four and comes off as sort of an introspective piece, reflecting back on past relationships and how some parts of his life have become a “heavy stone.” This song is the least compelling song on the album but gives an unusual conclusion. All in all, this album is a look at the complex nature of love and its complications. It is a refreshing look at the genres of pop, techno, and indie and I would definitely recommend giving it a listen. It only takes 14 minutes and is intriguing the whole way through.