An unholy marriage of Hari Krishna’s and Midnight Star? Please explain.
I am…strangely drawn to them…
I don’t know much about their music, but they use to have a couple of really cool, short video adventure games on the internets.
Still do: http://questfortherest.com/
I expect them to drink some cyanide-flavored Flavor-Aid soon, but that’s not what I came in to post. Do check out Samorost, by the same guy who made the game.
Every song I’ve heard by them reminds me of that 5th Dimension song about the balloon. But it seems that there are more of them. And they’re way happier. I can’t handle music that’s so unrelentingly cheerful.
No human should be that happy without the aid of powerful opiates. The Polyphonic Spree is what I imagine mainlining corn syrup must feel like.
Still, it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure when I’m in a good mood.
Regarding the way they dress:
I can appreciate the skill and practice involved, but more than anything I’m reminded of church camp. Their music makes me feel like … running away and smoking cigarettes behind the pool house.
I’ve been to several of their live concerts and they are a lot of fun. Their studio albums are really good, but when playing live they are amazing. And it’s funny going to a concert where it’s a lot of hipsters in attendance, and they are grinning and jumping around and being goofy and having fun, instead of playing it cool and just bobbing their heads like at most concerts.
Obviously their music is not for everyone, but you should give them a chance before dismissing them just because the band is huge and they wear funny outfits.
I think the robes are pretty lame. If they wanted to keep the appearance uniform, they should have just gone with tuxes or suits for the men and black dresses for the women. You can’t go wrong with that, in my opinion.
Except that “black tux” and “classy” are two of the things they’re not. Black tuxes, or even suits, and black dresses are for chamber music or the orchestra.
They joyous and fun and exuberant and witty and delightful, but they’re not staid and proper.
I like them; when I’m in the right mood they give me perma-grin. But yeah, I suspect there is something in the Kool-aid! (Flavor-aid, I know, I know.)
They’re an antidote to cynicism. I like 'em.
I’ve been staring at that and clicking things for like an hour without any progress whatsoever… someone wanna drop me a hint?
They heard a flaming lips record once and said, “us too.”
They had different clothes for the last tour, black shirts with “the fragile army” written on them. Their music’s ok, IMO. I like it, but it doesn’t blow me away.
It’s a puzzle game.
Keep clicking on the picture. (Hint: in the first screen, it’s small things that matter)
Hint.
Spoiler.
Start with the cactus.
My guilty pleasure is trying to imagine what it would look like if they got into a huge brawl with the Danielson Famile. 
The Armadillo thing likes the fruit of the cactus too, but the shrew thing grabs it first, so… make sure the shrew is preoccupied.
Going a bit astray here, but, if you liked “Quest for the Rest” a slightly more challenging (and trippy) Flash game by the same designers is here:
And an even more challenging one with the same little character here:
And if anybody can give a me a hint about what to do in the pod where you are heating up the stuff in the pot, I’ll be grateful. I can get a few drops of liquid and the spores from the plants into the pot and turn up the heat and open the spigot, but nothing happens.
You need to get more than a few drops of liquid into the pot. Hmm. There’s a pump-looking thing there. But it doesn’t do anything. Maybe because that critter is sucking up everything in the pipe? Maybe if you could plug the hole somehow to stop him from doing that…