Forget everything you think you know about pop albums. Longboat ’s Word Gets Around isn’t here to soundtrack your breakup or pump you up on the treadmill. It’s here to make you think—then dance a little weirdly while doing it.

The avant-garde composer-slash-pop provocateur has released 32 albums and counting, but Word Gets Around feels like a new chapter in an already wild book. The songs aren’t just songs—they’re micro-fictions, complete with protagonists, unresolved dilemmas, and sonic twists that defy expectation. If you’re used to predictable verse-chorus-verse structures, buckle up: Longboat doesn’t play by those rules. In fact, he says rule-breaking is “the only way things get done.”

Tracks like “Euro vs. Disco” blend campy dance tropes with haunting suspense—think Saturday Night Fever scored by Goblin. Word Gets Around is a short story collection, a sonic puzzle, a challenge to lazy listening. And for the casual stumbler who finds Longboat without context? “Welcome! There’s something for you here. Stay as long as you want.”

He’s not just breaking musical boundaries—he’s rebuilding them from scratch. One weird, wonderful, head-spinning record at a time.