Victorian Halls, Charlatan.
I’m sure there’s a whole genre of this out there—synthesizer-type beats and rhythms juxtaposed with deliriously out of tune vocals and askew guitars. But it’s escaped my ears until now, and I find it quite fetching, the way I first fell for Bow Wow Wow. “Lucky 16” has a music-hall opening, then wild screeching declarations, then a sing-along, then… it’s over, and followed cleverly by “Dear, This Is Desperate,” a more complex tune build around similar melodies and energies. When this stuff clicks, it whacks you right upside the head.