At the very least, the Metrolites have officially given the world the coolest song title of the new millenium: "Gunfight at the Zombie Mineshaft". In fact, that very title gives a good impression of the types of music that this eclectic ensemble plays. On In Spy-Fi, the Metrolites take a variety of styles of music most often associated with the B movies of the '50s and '60s (everything from cocktail jazz to tiki music to faux-rockabilly), and toss them into erratic, genre shifting songs. The talented band deftly jumps from style to style, sometimes within the same song, as if they were the Space Age Bachelor Pad equivalent of John Zorn's Naked City project. The instrumentals are exciting, but, for the most part, they fail to stand up on their own as compositions. In Spy-Fi is an album that begs to be the soundtrack of something, whether to a movie or to a night on the town, but does not quite succeed on its own merits. The songs with vocals also work against the rest of the album, making the Metrolites seem more like a joke band that they actually are, evoking They Might Be Giants, Oingo Boingo, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers all at once. However, when the band coheres, as they do on their interpretation of Bacharach and David's immortal theme song to "The Blob" and on the creeping instrumental "The Abominable Dr. Vibes", the results are astounding. Movie producers of the world, get this band some soundtrack work, pronto! — Hunter Felt