30 Second Reviews from 9/2

Health
Get Color
SOUNDS LIKE: Ground up guitars and primal drums, glorious post-punk noise from LA kids who play at the Smell because they do too.
FREE ASSOCIATION: Those bangs look perfect for squeaky guitar head-banging rhythms.
FOR FANS OF: Crystal Castles, Battles, Mika Miko.

David Bazan
Curse Your Branches
SOUNDS LIKE: Heart-wrenchingly beautiful LP from Pedro the Lion songwriter about faith, life and love with expert guitar support.
FREE ASSOCIATION: Sometimes all you need is a great voice and smart lyrics to make it tight.
FOR FANS OF: Bon Iver meets National + Dylan.

deadmau5
For Lack of a Better Name
SOUNDS LIKE: The Toronto super-producer/DJ drops an hour of clubbed-up electro house on a proper LP for the dance heads.
FREE ASSOCIATION: Best-suited for late, late beery nights when anonymity is key.
FOR FANS OF: Tiësto, Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold.

BLK JKS
After Robots
SOUNDS LIKE: South African friends’ anticipated Secretly Canadian LP is a chaotic blend of soweto, tribalism, acid rock and soulful pop.
FREE ASSOCIATION: The Police had a sweet reggae streak—this is 50x sweeter.
FOR FANS OF: Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend, but badass.

A.A. Bondy
When The Devil’s Loose
SOUNDS LIKE: The Georgia rocker left grunge rock behind when he moved to the Catskills and started making gorgeous sad bastard blues in a barn.
FREE ASSOCIATION: This second LP is better than the first; less boozey, more soulful.
FOR FANS OF: Waits, Reed, Cohen.

Reverend Horton Heat
Laughin’ & Cryin’ with the Reverend Horton Heat
SOUNDS LIKE: The land’s foremost practitioners of psychobilly blend blues, polka, rockabilly and bizarro country into one weird-ass trip.
FREE ASSOCIATION: Imagine Garth Brooks on acid performing a country-western puppet show.
FOR FANS OF: Weird Al Yankovic, Brian Setzer.

Timber Timbre
Timber Timbre
SOUNDS LIKE: Way cool soft and bluesy folk music that meets up with Canadian country twang, spooks it then hushes it with a lullaby.
FREE ASSOCIATION: Do they have a Memphis up there? This is spooky saloon music.
FOR FANS OF: Johnny Cash meets Portishead.

Matisyahu
Light
SOUNDS LIKE: Better record than his debut, which isn’t saying much. You can only take so much Judaic reggaeton.
FREE ASSOCIATION: Oh dear, Joel Madden is on a song. That shouldn’t have happened.
FOR FANS OF: Bob Marley + DMB x Shaggy