Spins
Double The ZZ!
ZZ Top Tres Hombres/Fandango! (Warner Bros.) Texas boogie kingpins get re-releases for back-to-back platinum albums.
Illumilite
Latrice Barnett Illuminate (Ultra) Dance club lite tracks exhibit more anonymity than soul on Five Point Plan vocalist’s solo debut.
Frankly
Frankel Chatterbox (Three Ring) Calling him “Lithium pop,” Frankel’s label isn’t doing him any favors, appropriate as it might be.
Brothers In Studs
Deadstring Brothers Starving Winter Report (Bloodshot) From Kurt Marschke’s flat sneer to the country bent of Deadstring’s divebar rock, Starving Winter Report was made with one thing in mind: Exile On Main Street.
Wave of mutation
(The Sounds Of) Kaleidoscope From Where You Were To How You Got There (Hackshop) If you can get away without humming “Hounds Of Love” during “New Language,” this 12-track debut will tumble you through a sonic undertow in an oh-so-English sway.
Mump In The Road
Measles Mumps Rubella Fantastic Success (Doubling Cube) Dancin’ D.C. punks whip through seven-song, half-hour debut “album.”
Colter 45
Jessi Colter Out Of The Ashes (Shout! Factory) Waylon’s widow emerges 22 years from her last effort, providing a duet with her late husband.
Hello yourself
The Capes Hello (Hard Soul) Periodically British bands inadvertently circle wagons and form an Empire Shell in order to protect the local industry from Americanizing.
Pelicannot
Tusk Get Ready (He Who Corrupts) Seventy-five percent of instru-metal giants Pelican make up this screaming quartet.
Dead Or Alive, You’re Coming With Me
The Robocop Kraus They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus (Epitaph) If you want to get all ethnic, what the angular Gang Of Four revival has needed is some legit time-conscious weirdoes.
Call Me
Matchbook Romance Voices (Epitaph) I really didn’t understand how nigh prog punk was when I first interviewed The Lawrence Arms.
System Down
Slave To The System Slave To The System (Spitfire) This composite of Brother Cane and Queensrÿche members also have a little bit of Bad Company in them.
How do you feels?
Animal Collective Feels (Fat Cat) Much to the chagrin of the indie elite, their pet bands are forced to more accessibly contextualize their work to find out where they stand.
Cross Examined
P.O.D. Testify (Atlantic) If P.O.D. think they can hang their hats on the Christian thing, they’re gonna have to be a little more honest when they testify. They say nothing new on their fifth.
Francheezie
Dem Franchize Boyz On Top Of Our Game (Virgin) Not to be confused with DFL and “Laffy Taffy,” DFB show up with “I Think They Like Me” and a whole buncha songs just like it.
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