The synthy dance club vibes of Mantraband are the music baby of Matt Manges on drums (Circus Contraption, Annie Ford Band, Orkestar Zirkonium), Doug Arney on bass (Correspondents), and Sari Breznau (Flotsam River Circus, Up Up Up Crane Truck Circus, Future Fridays) on synth and trumpet, with the help of the Mantraband Friends Fellowship Society, a choir of true believers, on vocals. Unabashedly positive, Mantraband is here to uplift, unite, dork out, and get down. Mantraband exists outside of criticism and taste, beyond genre or vibe, in a place of ecstatic, human, silly, release. The band’s just-announced self-titled record is for dancing in your socks, Risky Business style. For calming yourself when you’re freaking out, for letting go when you’re holding too tight, for pumping up, for le...