Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle’s new CD, Rock Star Bench Press, combines a lot of different styles that would be almost too in-your-face except for the inherent lightness of his preferred instruments, the electric vibraphone and xylophone. There are the stop-and-switch song sections that echo prog rock. There is some rapping, and in many songs Dillon sings or yells like this is vintage punk rock. There is even some mutant Cissy Strut funk on the first track, excellently titled “Go-Go Theme Song No. 2 (I saw George Porter Jr. playing punk rock with my pal Skerik).” And then, after all this intensity, there is the ethereal “Chemtrails,” which is airy and pretty with Marco Benevento’s piano matching Dillon’s vibes and tabla, and a version of Jane’s Addiction’s “Summertime Rules” that has even more of the spacey, drugged sheen than the original.

Eclectic is the best way to describe this recording, and eclectic in the best of ways. It has the attitude of an old Minutemen record (and one of the songs, “Vietnam”) so the listener never knows what will come next— sometimes within a song. Sometimes such records can be unbalanced and too much, but Rock Star Bench Press plays it both heavy and light so that the listener can enjoy either mood.