Automatic City entered the blues through the back door. Others had done so before them: the giants of the Chess label, Dr. John, Captain Beefheart, Alan Vega, Jon Spencer. And because there's more to life than just the blues (even if there's no life without the blues), Automatic City intertwines it with their taste for orientalist and psychedelic exotica, science fiction film soundtracks, African rhythms, and electronic beats. Triple Ripple is their third album, and it's their best. The one that goes further, denser, crazier. What you hear on it comes from everywhere, and can only be heard here.