To fully understand the quirk-rock genius of Jonathan Coulton, you have to pull out the slide rule, and a few old LPs, and use our handy, patent-pending Algorhythm:
Take the crunchy hooks, the songs about weird topics like “Santa’s Beard” or anti-depressants and the general sensibility of They Might Be Giants’s “Lincoln” …
Add some of the pop sensibility of Fountains of Wayne’s eponymous first LP …
Add the square root of Nick Lowe’s “Pure Pop for Now People” …
And you get Jonathan Coulton’s “Articifical Heart.”
