Best of Gloucester County not only retains the Danielson cult of positivity but is in fact better than the cameo-studded last album, Ships (2006). It takes only one song—the opening track, “Complimentary Dismemberment”—to know Smith is still preaching the glammy oddball gospel and still making a scientific mess of octaves (particularly on the single “Grow Up”). His is a voice rightly suited for good religious hysteria, and it’s in that Danielson Way that songs like “Lil Norge,” where he pleads (suggests strongly?) “Can’t we be friends,” become completely idiosyncratic. Ditto the bizarre circus entry, “People’s Partay,” or “Hovering Above That Hill,” which does away so efficiently with the earthly rat race.