Reprogram (Goodbye Boozy). Review by Julius C. Lacking.

This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by the quantuum improbability of having landed on Julius C. Lacking’s desk at precisely the right time.

Jade Hairpins don’t care about your repetitive song structures, man. That’s not how you cram five albums’ worth of material into less than forty minutes.

Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.

Pop-collagist/Party-Starter Girl Talk (a.k.a. Gregg Gillis ) talks to Omar de la Rosa about sampling, doing remixes versus Girl Talk originals, the like-minded performance stylings of tourmate Dan Deacon, and Gregg’s favorite mixed drink.

Chrome (Temporary Residence). Review by Stein Haukland.

Chrome (Temporary Residence). Review by Stein Haukland.

Disinformation Fix 2XCD (Alone). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Loves You… Loves You Not (Narnack). Review by Daniel Mitchell.

Knock Knock Knock EP (Sub Pop). Review by Ian Koss.

Black Box Broken (Deary Me). Review by Kurt Channing.

Ruy Blas (Lovitt). Review by Kurt Channing.