Deastro is fronted by 22-year-old auteur Randolph Chabot. And while 'Moondagger', Deastro’s astonishing new album contains the sort of unrelentingly earnest, inspirational pop music that could only come from a kid weaned on fiction but living desperately, joyously in the here-and-now. 'Moondagger' expands upon the positive electro-pop of 'Keepers' - Deastro’s home-recorded opus from 2008 - with the addition of a full band. Thankfully, the mercurial, prolific Chabot still seems blissfully unaware of his music’s genreless-ness. Thick, atmospheric production obscures bright, starry-eyed melodies; ecstatic synth squiggles dance around new-wave beats on songs about Nordics, toxic crusaders, and geometric shapes; arrangement ideas bounce off one another within ambitious song structures that swerve left, then right, then left again.