In Up & Coming:

Men, Team Gina, Your Heart Breaks

(Chop Suey) Your Heart Breaks is more a story-telling collective than a band, with a rotating cast of characters. The heart and spine is Clyde Petersen, but Karl Blau, Kimya Dawson, and Laura Veirs have all been known to help tell YHB's wonderful stories, sad stories, and stories about getting stoned on a rooftop in Vancouver. In "Torrey Pines," Petersen sweetly sings a lyric that could sum up the project's reason to exist: "The shit that you've been through is the reason you're you/I bet someone is listening with a similar history/Once the words are spoken and it's all out in the open/It will help other people feel a lot less broken/So open up your mouth and let it all out/You've got to get it all out/Just get it off your fucking chest." Amen. MEGAN SELING

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cryptacize, Ribbons

(Healthy Times Fun Club) Owen Ashworth's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone project stands (or hunches) as one of emotronica's most prominent figures, a poor person's Magnetic Fields. I'm too old and cynical to truly love CFTPA's morose, heart-on-sleeve bedroom ditties, but his appeal to sensitive youths is understandable. Oakland trio Cryptacize—featuring ex-Deerhoof guitarist Chris Cohen—write pretty yet jagged quasi pop, topped by smooth male/female vocals, while favoring surprising song dynamics that don't come off as overly ADHD or gimmicky. They also do a brilliant, spectral deconstruction of Steely Dan's "Peg," which I urge you to hear ASAP. It just charmed my pants off, which is problematic, as I'm in the office. DAVE SEGAL

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