For pop listeners looking for a bit more to chew on, Social Cinema’s debut Don’t Get Lost features a wealth of simultaneously at-odds and complementary instrumentation, whether that’s demonstrated by the band’s hard-panned, three-pronged guitar attack of Gang Of Four-esque chimes exchanged among guitarists Griffin Bush, Mari Crisler and Reed Tiwald, or via the stop-start, drum-pad-aided grooves played by Logan Bush and bassist Austin Engler.

Each song on Don’t Get Lost is ultimately concerned with stuffing in as many hooky bits as possible, which often sends the songs in unexpected directions. Take second track, “Human Development,” which contains the elements of a normal pop song — there’s an intro, a verse and a chorus, albeit separated by several other distinct parts. Instead of returning from the chorus to a second verse, the song diverts into a maracas-infused instrument break whose only vocal part functions to bolster the song’s rhythm, not the song’s melody. It’s a delightfully adventurous move that makes the eventual explosive second chorus that much more gratifying.

Don’t Get Lost is unmistakably a pop album meant to hook you in at the surface level and designed to reward you with repeated listens. Social Cinema have evolved here from their own self-prescribed characterization as a “live” band. While the live show will remain key to their identity, Don’t Get Lost is a full-length feat that earns them a new label: a “complete” band.