Hypersaccharine

It’s some of the best plastic surgery this century. That or demonic possession: Surely age alone is insufficient to explain Rick(y) Schroder’s transformation from hypersaccharine sitcom munchkin to tough-talking adult of no more than average munchkinliness.

The singing is sometimes pure and sometimes processed into exaggeratedly AutoTuned “Alvin and the Chipmunks” automation. On guitars, keyboards, percussion and electronics, the six instrumentalists also veer from moody industrial rock and elegiac synth drones to jittery, hypersaccharine pop.