Aliens invade Chicago and out of a gleaming saucer emerges a ski-goggle wearing, cheetah print-loving, insane tweet-posting maniac named kels!. Despite the extrastellar intro, his debut mixtape RENAISSANCE keeps things down to earth by balancing plainspoken heartache with tongue-in-cheek humor. On spring single “VAN GOGH” he was simultaneously hanging with a beautiful woman and missing a different one, but the song opens with kels! groaning about his burgeoning lean gut like he’s reporting on the weather. Behind him, jittery synths pulse and strobe, almost as fast-moving as he is.