Do robots dream of electric disco? If they do, Reporter is providing the soundtrack. The Portland-based trio’s debut LP, Time Incredible, manages to straddle a sound between indie-dance and dream-like pop. The result feels like disco night at your local hipster dive, after you’ve downed several shots and swaddled yourself in a comforting cloud of haze.

Album opener “Geronimo’s Bones” is a perfect introduction, with echoing vocals fading out of hypnotic bass riffs and pulsing synth beats. The band began its life as a genre-bending indie-rock act called Wet Confetti, but have evolved into something closer to fellow Portlanders Glass Candy. You can still hear their rock influence if you listen to their bass, and perhaps to Alberta Poon’s plaintive, slight vocals, which often have a mysteriousness to them that furthers the dream-like atmosphere of the band’s songs.

While a lot of their tracks are designed more for swaying to, a few are proper dancefloor shakers, like the intense “Moon.” Driving guitar and bursts of synth escalate quickly from something that invokes head-bobbing into full-on dancefloor convulsions, and make it one of the standouts on the record.

But most of the time, Time Incredible leaves the energy level at a low simmer, bubbling just high enough to keep at least one foot tapping. The title track is exemplary, a dark, sexy track where lyrics, sung breathlessly, are just barely obscured by distortion. It’s virtually impossible to make out what Poon is singing on a lot of the album – but whatever it is, it sounds good.

(Holocene Music, no address provided)