It must feel liberating to be a media darling.Only the kind of freedom that accompanies the constant adulation of music critics could enable a band like Cibo Matto to keep doing what it does.Don’t misinterpret that; what Cibo Matto does is great. But it also borders on the incomprehensible.The band’s new release, “Stereo Type A,” continues the tradition laid out in their debut “Viva! La Woman.” The album is wall-to-wall samples and cool grooves by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori that accompany their girlish vocals. They both sound so sweet and young that just listening to them can make you feel like a pedophile.But then there are the lyrics. There’s a fine line between gibberish and Dadaist poetry. Somehow Cibo Matto is always perceived as writing the latter. It could be because nonsensical lines like “We know we are not apes, but we could make sweet seedless grapes” from “Working for Vacation” are followed by lyrics that cut to the truth, as in “I want certain words more than a thousand flowers” from “Flowers.””Flowers” is such an honest song about human emotions that we assume that “Working for Vacation” must hold some higher meaning. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. But it absolutely does not matter. Some of their songs make no sense and some make so much sense that it almost hurts. That’s the joy of listening to Cibo Matto.The mood of the album flows from their trademark up-tempo, urban, hip-hop style of “Sci-Fi Wasabi” to slower, more ethereal tunes like “Moonchild” to 70s-style funk, a la “Spoon.” Regardless of the approach, they don’t miss the mark.Unlike other Japanese girl bands like Shonen Knife and Pizzicato Five who offer more style than substance, Cibo Matto gives us both. There’s a good reason all the critics love them.