The Lacking Permanence

Unusual tactics and disruptive strategies make for some fine sounds from Courting.

One final challenge awaits: swim through the Reservoir of Bliss, filled with honey, liquid moonlight, and endorphins, then dance in slow motion across the infra-disco, as BRONCHO's underwater guitar syrup and whispered falsetto choruses are playing.

It's not too late to dance your way into the Darkside.

I don’t know how Dynamite Shakers manage to cram so much sound into my little tiny earbuds.

It’s inevitable — I hate it, but it happens every few years. I’ll forget my headphones at home and have to use the station’s pair. The show must continue. And here is The Sonic Dawn to kick it off in style with some of that hard-hitting punchy punch rolling mayhem thing they do.

Unbridled rock and roll from the west of France, where the vehicles may be smaller but where the spirit of le garage lives on, giving us good opportunity to apply the term "howling" and generally act as American as a keg party in the woods.

The instrumental aesthetic that is surf guitar is on a rebound, and producing all manner of interesting interpretations. This Colombian band blends off-beats, endearingly dissonant riffs, and unexpected tropical psychedelia into a hot-and-heady mix.

Don't you be giving Vundabar the hairy eyeball, because they will mess you up.

An unusual release blending all manner of genres from the last 50 years, which ends up sounding like a very approachable prog rock. Creative arrangements and surprising turns of style keep this an engaging listen.