Los Angeles' Boingo has had more lives than a proverbial cat, somehow constantly surviving the pitfalls of 15 years as a band despite the slings and arrows of critics, a reputation as a West Coast phenomenon and leader Danny Elfman's increasingly successful film scoring career. That's not to say there haven't been changes in that time, the most notable of which occur on Boingo, the band's seventh studio album.

The band has stripped the Oingo from its name and pared down to five members, losing the three-man horn section that characterized the band for so many years. But perhaps the biggest change is in the sound of the record, which is more aggressive and guitar-heavy than Boingo has been in years. Also gone are three and four-minute pop songs, as Elfman and the band completely explore the potential of the songs, with a number of tracks clocking in at well over seven minutes (not to mention the 16-minute opus, "Change").

New guitarist Warren Fitzgerald is omnipresent on the record, notably lending his guitar histrionics to the new, taut Boingo sound on tracks such as "Hey!" and "Pedestrian Wolves." Old school fans will want to spend time with "Can't See (Useless),” "War Again" and the band’s sharp rendering of "I Am The Walrus." But without a doubt, the album's finest moment is the aptly titled lead track, "Insanity," which combines tribal, polyrhythmic percussion with lyrical bile regarding the rise of the religious right to form one of the band's finest moments.