GUERILLA TOSS

"The trio’s latest is a beautiful mess of squelchy psych-pop."

They may have been on the rosters of Tzadik Records (John Zorn's label), DFA and, recently, Sub Pop (that's the anagram that appears on their latest album, Famously Alive), but Guerilla Toss' music has no master. Or at least, it doesn't seem so. And it's a good thing that their stylistic vane spins wildly from electroclash to art-rock, from noise to EDM, from no-wave to nu-rave, from hardcore to glam psychedelia. Whatever they play, this Boston band always burns brightly. It radiates. Above all, Kassie Carlson, their magnetic frontwoman (it's as hard to take your eyes off her as it is with Karen O, for example) who fuses styles song after song, like someone playing a video game.