If Dan Deacon doesn’t make you want to dance, it’s possible your soul is dead. The Baltimore electronic music producer and composer makes psychedelic, absurdist pop with live shows that tend to explode into massive dance parties—even in the NPR offices. His fourth studio album, Gliss Riffer, is a densely-constructed vocoder landscape with a playful and neverending beat.

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