Influenced both by the carefully constructed timeless pop of the ’60s and ’70s and by the nonchalance and brevity of classic indie rock, Telekinesis! introduced the world to Michael Benjamin Lerner. The album was recorded at Two Sticks Audio in Seattle with producer Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, The Thermals). Michael wrote and sang all of the songs and played nearly all of the instruments on the record. The result was an album that inspired Carrie Brownstein to describe it in her now-defunct NPR Music column as “perfectly crafted and utterly gleeful,” while SPIN.com declared, “If you don’t like Telekinesis, your ears don’t work.”