Remember The Night Parties is the third full-length album from the Brooklyn band Oxford Collapse, recently added to the SubPop roster. Capturing the energy and all-out enthusiasm of their live shows, the album bounces and bounds in waves of blustery pop songs that alternate fuzzy guitars with big, shiny (and incredibly hooky) melodies that are influenced by a simpler, less "artsy"-pretentious time in indie rock (think late 80's and earlier 90's, perhaps.) Constantly treading the line between exuberant and sloppy--or maybe just exuberantly sloppy--these songs have an element of joyful abandon to them that make them sparkly and fun. There's a sense of constant movement throughout the album--a restlessness, even--that moves underneath the music itself and shows itself in the lyrics. Take "Let's Vanish," for example, with its bubbling bass and chiming guitar lines--"Traveling upstream, climbing up gables/Over equators, jumping the dunes/Fenced in from neighbors barks dissipating/Disappearing in stages makes no sound at all." One of the album's highlights can be found in "Loser City"--so catchy, this little song is, that it practically taunts the listener into repeat listens-- with huge, almost punky riffs and anthem-y, devil may care vocals, the song bulldozes along until a sudden slow interlude appears mid-song; and then, all of a sudden, it's right back to rockin' again. Lead singer Michael Pace, bassist Adam Rizer, and awesome drummer (last time I witnessed an Oxford Collapse live show, he was unabashedly sporting a neckerchief) Dan Fetherston have a great dynamic--these three compliment each other well and enjoy what they're doing--something that is obvious throughout "Remember." (Check out goofily catchy album closer "In Your Volcano" for evidence of that.)

Oxford Collapse have set themselves apart from the homogenous (for the most part) NYC scene with Remember The Night Parties--making a well-crafted album that seems like it was a joy to create--music made for the sake of staying up late and causing (or narrowly escaping) trouble.