With a variety of tracks ranging from over-the-top techno to those that parallel its usual alternative rock style, Chicago band OK GO’s newest album, “Hungry Ghosts”, has something for everyone, but, taken in its entirety, it is not nearly as appealing. Throughout the album the band uses a synthesizer excessively, leaving little room for listeners to process the meaningful lyrics and admire the pleasing vocals. “I Won’t Let You Down” is extremely catchy and upbeat, but about halfway through a techno beat is played for about 10 seconds that seems as if it is from an entirely different song. Rather than leaving a perfectly good song alone, the band felt the need to detract from the song’s assets and just about ruin it. While it seems as if the band does not know how to successfully infuse a synthesizer into its music in most of the songs on the album, there are a few saving graces. Tracks such as “If I had a Mountain” and “The Writing on the Wall” leave listeners begging for more songs similar to those. Both tracks have a techno beat present, but its inclusion is done imperceptibly and even if noticed, it feels as if the beat is necessary for the song, which should have been the goal for the entire album Bottom Line: OK GO’s “Hungry Ghosts” is just an OK album; its redundant use of a synthesizer is overkill and it features very few notable songs that are well done, thus enabling this album to be the perfect example of when to skip buying the whole album and just getting a few of the songs.