One day a few years back, three talented museos led by guitar virtuoso / singer-songwriter Petteri Sariola took up residence in a centuries old cabin out in the middle of god forsaken Finland, a locale so remote and ill-kept that even black mold feared to tread its inner architecture. After lighting up a few bongs and torching a couple tequila shots, they pulled out their gear and decided to record an album on the premises over the course of a week despite having no songs written.

That trio was Dead Sirius 3000, and that album is their debut masterpiece Get Sirius, an utterly inspired exercise in fluid popcraft and spontaneity that many a rock band out there these days would kill to have to their credit.

Despite the fact that all twelve songs were literally composed and recorded within hours, sometimes even minutes of setting up camp, they're all sensational. Hell, just the first six songs alone are packed with enough hooks and salient passages to fill up a warehouse meat locker to full capacity and beyond. And some songs in particular, such as the Chick Corea-turned-folk rocker 'She Was A Woman' and the 3-1/2 minutes of pop perfection known as 'The Hole', are good enough to rule the world for at least 15 minutes if someone had the balls to promote these fellas on radio.

But this album wouldn't have made my list if it was merely just an exceptional pop record. No, these guys are chameleons of the absolute best kind. A trippy and aptly-named little number called 'Mushrooms' serves as an interlude into a raw, Southern fried take on modern radio R&B with 'Hands Down', only to shift gears again into a tasty trip-rock fix with 'Bleed Out' and even your fair share of QOTSA atmospheric alt. rock in 'Gimme A Break' and 'Daddy's Bottle'. In other words, there's a LOT of diversity across these songs, which makes this debut both very immediate yet fully warranting multiple spins just to take in the complete scope of what this trio offers.

Modern pop/rock radio may be dead in 2013....but if you have to be dead, you might as well stick with being Dead Sirius.