Jonathan and Robert Lee Scott, the two brothers who make up the Doleful Lions, have overhauled their sound in a big way for their 2008 release 7. Their lyrics are as weird and detailed as ever, reflecting active minds that spend much of their time consuming books, the more obscure the better. But their sound has completely shifted away from the acoustic-based folk leanings of the past into a new world of electronic toys where beats are synthesized and keyboards come racing in and out of the mix. This 14-track collection moves the band into a 1980s space with its mechanical dance grooves. No one could actually dance to the stuttering, halting beat underneath “The Luminous Sounds of the Manvantaric Dawn,” where the lyrics sound lifted from an odd college textbook on marketing or a new age manual: “All those that came from one, before the start of every heaven enjoined, behold the first logos.” This heady conceptualism aside, there are moments of musical beauty. “White Lotus Day” and “Holy Hill” have hymn-like solemnity. And harmonies layer themselves throughout for moments that resemble a ‘60s group like the Association having taken an unexpected detour.