What a blast! Channelling Talking Heads in their Stop Making Sense era? (with as "The Music Place" commented below more than a dash of LCD Sound System) Koenig also has more than a touch of David Byrnes cool dorkiness about him. Whatever, they nailed it! More please, much more.
For good. But he still worked on a few new songs with them. Basically he's no longer a member, but can still produce some songs if that's how it works out
Oh man - if they can play stuff like this faster and more frenetic, like if they mix this jam up with a vibe like "Cousins" - we may have found the replacement for The Mars Volta. You know, just in case a new album from them sucks as much as Antemasque did.
New Dorp is a rich neighborhood in Staten Island, New York. I guess some people see it as the last bastion of the gilded era rich, the one with the Vanderbilts and fucking Gatsby... The real reason behind his comment though... you'll have to ask him