Bar Italia borrow a classic title and twist it into their own elliptical language. Some Like It Hot is cool, restless, and slyly theatrical, where deadpan vocals and frayed guitars keep brushing against sparks.
Godspeed You Black Emperor! make apocalypse feel architectural on Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. This 2CD set preserves the Montreal collective’s towering, wordless crescendos in full.
Deerhoof remain proudly allergic to gravity. Noble and Godlike in Ruin tosses candy hooks, sideways riffs, and prankster logic into one bright machine that somehow keeps inventing new doors.
Will Wood and the Tapeworms make Self-ish feel like a carnival ride with the brakes cut. Screams, theremin, kazoo, power tools, and shattered furniture all orbit a strangely precise pop brain.