I’m not convinced that So Many Dynamos are human—watching them play is like watching a funny and fast little robot put together a trillion-piece puzzle. Every song is glued together with dozens of loops, riffs, beats, and bits of noise via synthesizers, sampling keyboards, guitars, drums, and a variety of different pedals and percussion, and live, the band has to multitask like motherfuckers to get it all done.

And somehow to do.

Guitarist Ryan Wasoba blasts a guitar riff then hits a sound loop, then back to the guitar riff, then the sound loop again right before he hits a pedal, then another, then the first, then the guitar riff while still managing to grab the shaker for a few measures. Meanwhile, singer Aaron Stovall often uses his chin to play his Korg because he needs both hands for the Nord or the cowbell or to make sure the microphone doesn’t fall into his keyboard.

I don’t know how they do it, in the dark, amidst the camera flashes, without messing up (noticeably, at least). But regardless of how messy and confusing it all looks, their mathematic dance rock sounds calculated and masterful.

Since they just released their new album The Loud Wars last month, the majority of the set was from that, but my personal highlights of the evening came when they played a couple favorites from Flashlights including “Search Party,” and “We Vibrate, We Do.” They’ve been playing the songs for years—they’ve got ‘em down to a science.

However, seeing some of the new songs played live, magically, with inhuman superpowers, gave me a new appreciation for The Loud Wars, which I had previously decided was just “pretty good.” But today, with the image of the band bouncing about the stage like mechanical crickets, I’m loving songs like “The Novelty of Haunting,” “Keep it Simple,” and “It’s Gonna Rain” (“I don’t wanna make amends, I just wanna make a mess!”)

They’re robots, I tell you. They’ve got to be robots. Or else there are some really amazing drugs in the water in Illinois.

So Many Dynamos play KEXP today at noon. That’s in five minutes!