FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA
Joshua Massad &
Dylan Aycock
★★★★
Two Improvisations
SCISSOR TAIL. DL/LP
Open-minded folk guitarists have been co-opting Indian ragas into their work since the days of John Fahey. Still, this set of 12-string, tabla and sitar freestyles, partly recorded at Leon Russell’s Church Studio in Tulsa, proves it remains a transportingly good idea.
JM
Cola ★★★
The Gloss
FIRE TALK. CD/DL/LP
Post-punk savvy Montreal trio cite the DIY brawn of Dischord and SST, though their second LP boasts more melody than muscle. Pathos, clatter and Tim Darcy’s Malkmus-esque deadpan define Albatross’s Strokes-ish hustle, Pulling Down’s R.E.M. melancholy and the oblique, anxious Keys Down If You Stay.