“Drive It Like You Stole It” is the first single from the Glitch Mob’s upcoming album Drink The Sea, and it’s, well, a banger with brains. Sure, the beats are huge – thunder huge, tornado huge, blowing-up-the-Death-Star huge: if you know anything about this Los Angeles-based trio, they take what one would think is a hip-hop beat and take it straight to hyperspace. But as slamming as the grooves driving “Drive” are, the surrounding elements are more nuanced than you’d expect, surprising the listener, teasing the ear. Clouds of poisonous bottom end hover ominously, bisecting disembodied female voices like a sloppily-deployed medieval torture device: indeed, for all the forward propulsion of the rhythm, as it pushes forward, ribbons of unexpected sound shatter in its wake. Dr. Dre would certainly be envious of the insistent synth lines that put the gas in this track’s motor, but at the same time, for all their explosiveness and drama, there’s a sadness to them, a loneliness, even, as one blogger put it, a melancholy. As such, the drums have to often fight through a haze of delicious distortion that even the most critical shoegazer would have to give props to. Songs like this make one wonder what Portishead might do if, say, they ever really did a heat-seeking missile. While waiting for that to happen, though, the Glitch Mob more than ably step into the breach – a space, admittedly where too few dare to funk up the program.