The Lacking Permanence

Great singalong spirit, hot flaming hooks, and actual things to say.

Dense arrangements make for a hallucinatory experience as each song feels like a symphony passing you by at light speed.

Pitch perfect UK reggae from the Slits vocalist, full of heavenly harmonies and thumping bass.

Soulful beats in the style of old-school acid jazz, mostly instrumental.

Even obscurists get to form supergroups, and Filthy Friends is one of the top entries in that category, with membership from Sleater-Kinney, the Young Fresh Fellows, the Fastbacks, and more.

High-order guitar instrumentals more concerned with melody and expression than pyrotechnics. Truly ear-opening.

Like getting picked up by the scruff of your neck and smashed into a wall of orange Jello, Swarming Branch gets your attention with the warping and weaving of "Zsazsur's Real Estate Song".

Take the most memorable weirdness to come out of Dr. Demento’s near-50-year reign and let a bunch of punks cover them.

More from this wave of reverb-drenched noisy Swedish psychedelia that we’re enjoying lately.

Did Jeff Rosenstock manage to find an unrecorded Ramones song? "Beating My Head Against A Wall" sure sounds like it, and that is 1,000% a compliment.