The Apparitions are on a mission to make mental conditions a daily tradition. Seventies crack-head rock would be the best way to describe "Oxygen Think Tank." It is crack-head in that fun way, before the terrible life-debilitating addiction kicks in.

The lyrics in the opener "Hospitality," are "day breaks/the sun wakes/valium and cornflakes/freeways/speed saves/stoplights and heatwaves." It's a word collage that paints an average morning for the portion of sunny America that still claims to be half-conscious.

Working with mostly traditional rock elements, The Apparitions is an enigma in that it comes off sounding anything but traditional. The uniqueness has something to do with how the sound wraps around every word like an extra-small T-shirt.

The album has a few heavier and lighter tracks, but is mostly composed of those weird in-between ones where you don't know if the message is serious or an inside joke. Believe it or not, that kind of cunning makes for an album so musically entertaining you could listen to it while performing surgery or while breaking into someone's house.