Your Mom's Got Fangs

Impeccable Blahs, the latest album by Brooklyn's Say Hi to Your Mom, is not only the rare synth-pop project with depth; it's also a journey through the swarm of literal and figurative bloodsuckers who walk among us. "I think that certain songs are blatantly about vampires, and other songs just have clues that are a bit more subtle," says SHTYM leader and self-professed Buffy the Vampire Slayer freak Eric Elbogen. "But what I intended is something that someone could sit down with and sort of discover how each song was about a vampire." Sure enough, Blahs not only proffers (dead) giveaways like "These Fangs" and "She Just Happens to Date the Prince of Darkness," but the less superficially scary "Snowcones and Puppies" is a soaring anthem of saccharine pining that would make Death Cab for Cutie proud.

SHTYM producing—get it?

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Say Hi to Your Mom performs Thursday, August 10, at Respectable Street, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $7. Call 561-832-9999, or visit www.thehoneycomb.com.