The first thing that comes to mind when you hit play on Hellogoodbye’s new album “Everything is Debatable” is an old video game, the first few seconds filled with an electronic solo reminiscent of a loading screen is some 1980s bullet hell shooter. Then Forrest Kline cuts in with vocals reminiscent of the Beatles, and you are taken on an interesting existential journey.

With you on this journey is an excellent beat and an accompaniment of exotic and cleverly used instruments that come together to produce a sound that reminds me most of Panic! at the Disco. Hellogoodbye samples from a variety of sources, and leaves one with a feeling of comfortable deja vu, as though the album had always been part of your musical experience, even though you are hearing it for the first time.

“Everything is Debatable” should be listened to in sequence, first track to last, so that the listener understands the effort that the band put into the transitions; it really does tell a story. The lyrics, while not perhaps the most engaging, do have some depth. Their topic may be somewhat juvenilely existential, a bit like the kind of poetry you’d find in a 12th grade English class, but that still shows more depth and thought than the latest One Direction hit.