Ryan Kattner, who guides Man Man’s kaleidoscopic insanity under the name Honus Honus, conceived the project after watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist 1973 fantasy film, The Holy Mountain. It’s easy to feel that connective tissue on the band’s sixth LP. After the soothing lounge-jazz overture of “Dreamers,” the record commences with the demented “Cloud Nein,” a symphonic-scale show tune that piles clattering piano, marimba, saxophone, strings and distorted guitar over Kattner’s grizzled croon. The cacophony feels earned: Dream Hunting arrives over six years after the last Man Man LP, On Oni Pond, which smoothed over their zaniest arrangements and most extreme dynamic swings. Here, Kattner embraces the carnivalesque madness that propelled his early work—only with better production values and a clearer sense of pop song structure. No matter how wildly the roller coaster swings, Kattner’s melodic sensibility keeps the listener fully strapped in. Take “On the Mend,” a swampy groove built on staccato marimba and slithering saxophone—the biggest surprise isn’t the out-of-nowhere distortion that oozes all over the track like lava; instead, it’s the sweetly sung pre-chorus vocal harmonies from Rebecca Black, the viral video star who scored a minor hit with “Friday,” her oft-parodied 2011 single. “Have you ever had a meltdown where it/ Felt like your brain was oozing/ Like a melting ice cream sandwich?” Kattner sings over the percussive attack of “Future Peg.” Why, indeed we have, good sir—while listening to this very album. Dream Hunting will melt your brain and leave behind a sugary residue.