Ok so you’ve sent in a CD for review and it’s wrapped in a brown, autographed bandana. Now you have my attention. ‘Cowgirls and Synthesizers’ is (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) comes to us from the electro-pop duo, Hyperbubble.

My first thought when hearing the first track, “Cowgirls And Synthesizers” was, “What in the world is this ridiculousness?” It’s a fast track combining synth, banjo, whimsical noise blips and verses with the pace of a really quick rapper. But my God, what a fun track. Who has the nerve to combine elements that, in and of themselves could be so far apart Hyperbubble does it and does it really well.

Some of the tracks on the album are reminiscent of 80s pop, new wave while some almost sound like music from silly commercials for kids toys. I guess that makes sense considering this album is in fact, a sound track. One example of this is “I Was a Teenage Jem Girl ”, a fun, upbeat track

“Saturday Morning Service” – what an appropriate title because what the track does is take us back to Saturday morning cartoons… another fun track. This one also has some background blips that are sort of reminiscent of old Atari or Nintendo games.

It’s one thing for an artist to create an original-sounding album while adhering to old school sounds. It can be an entirely different story for an artist to do it and make it listenable and make sense. This album definitely does. We won’t go through every track. But they are all different which is great for different scenes in a movie. It’s retro with the old school sounds and upbeat melodies but somewhere there’s a modern take herein. Perhaps the vocals could be a bit lower in the mix but that’s really the only complaint here.

If you are in the mood for something silly, creative, retro, whimsical, fun, then absolutely seek this record out. You won’t end up with anything other than a smile by the end of it.