Multi-genre band Snacktime has been on my radar for the last few years. I may not post every song, but each submission has something different I like about them. On “Spaceluv,” we get the group building up to an intergalactic eargasm akin to peak funk. When you add in the story of the song, though? I’m more than sold. We get “a boy meets girl, girl is an alien, alien claims boy as their own and intersteller love is to be had (if not made)” type of story. It’s fun, funky and intriguing. It’s kind of a “drunk people summation” of Urusei Yatsura, so I was on board for any way this song played out.

It just so happens that this love song also makes me want to become a dancing, dancing star.

Unlike Down Bad Universal Playboy Ataru Moroboshi, our group here is more than willing to accept the love and attention (and without shock therapy, no less). It’s probably because our heroes are more receptive to having someone claim them–and only them–as their Darling. However, those in the know know that Ataru cares more about Lum than he lets on. How this all comes back into play in Snacktime’s song is simple: love is universal, but it’s like space. It’s weird sometimes and a bit out there. It’s also one of those things that’ll have you looking and/or acting crazy 10/10 times. Considering the story of “Spaceluv” finds our human entranced by alien music, you were going

So you learned two things about me today. First, Urusei Yatsura is one of my favorite series (you find a lot of modern romcom anime tropes first pop up in it). Two, I believe Snacktime can make even abstract ideas like this sound and look amazing. Check it out below and support dope music in all its forms.