Credible Threats

VINYL FORMAT. "I'm never sleeping, I'm too busy keeping track of all the ways they say I might die." That's how Credible Threats opens: from the perspective of a fraught narrator tuned into his daily fears and nightly news. Caught somewhere between wry self-deprecation and full nervous breakdown, this is a dance song for Marshall McLuhan, or a pop anthem for Jack Gladney and his family in Delillo's "White Noise." The song's second verse begins, "I'm never sleeping, I'm too busy keeping track of all the things that could go wrong." But this isn't a song to go to sleep to. When the apocalypse comes, at least you'll be dancing.