Rumor has it that Ben Allen, producer/engineer on two of the best records of the last decade, 2009′s Merriweather Post Pavillion and 2006′s St. Elsewhere, wandered off the street into an Atlanta gig of Reptar‘s and offered on the spot to record the band’s debut 7″ and release it on his label — all based solely on the strength of their live set. Maybe the only thing that connects the two records, however disparate they may seem on paper, is how well each of them managed to communicate two fairly outlandish genres — surrealist neo-soul and New Weird America —  to the masses. And while Reptar is still far off of that sort of masterwork, it isn’t hard to hear what Allen found in the Atlanta-based quartet.

From the very start, Reptar makes no attempts at restraint, charging out of the gates with the vaguely tribal hoots and hollers of “Blast Off”. Things don’t quite settle down right away either, as Reptar storms right through the electro-charged bounce of “Stuck on my ID” and into the synth-tinged, Afrobeat workout of “Context Clues”. The aptly titled “Rainbounce” finds Reptar finally quitting their yelping for a good minute, working up a swirling mess of noisy synths in the meantime. Closer “Phonetics” catches them turning the volume knob down again, this time for a Ezra Koenig-styled vocal part on frontman Graham Ulicny’s part, over a tidy piano line that builds to a joyous racket of a finish.

As the quartet state so plainly whenever they can, their mission statement consists only of one item: make hips and feet move. There’s hardly an un-dancable moment to be found here, though that’s not always something to Reptar’s benefit. Between the hectic mishmash of influences (funky, Pastorius-inspired bass runs, wild Talking Heads-y polyrhythms, noisy nods to AnCo) and an insistence on keeping things on the wild side, Oblangle Fizz, Y’all! often sounds far too busy for its own good. Maybe when it finally comes time to record a full-length, they’ll have learned some restraint.