If I had the time and profound patience it would take I would listen through my Beatles catalog and find the track these guys pillaged for the album's opening riff just so I wouldn't have to keep wondering "what does this sound like?" every time I hear it. Maybe you know. You're very smart so you might.
Faulting a band for strip-mining the Fab Four's mountain of material would end all popular music as we know it so we'll set that aside. Same goes for the Beach Boys, who are quoted here through warmly addled phrasing, harmonies and orchestration. But really it's the Beatles.
Actually it's really really the Elephant 6; Athens, Georgia's semi-defunct independent psych-pop musicians collective / record label / state of mind. Whlie E6 bands like The Apples In Stereo and Beulah move into bigger digs and others shrink into obscurity, Of Montreal, a notable satellite of the core organization, ably carries the standard, complete with all the hallmarks - densely instrumented production, sunny upbeat rhythms backing supposed real-life tales of the absurd, familiar stilts for influences, and of course the sound of mild halucinogens percolating in the background - all of which make for lots of listening fun.
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