From the preview Gone Away Again:

The Fiery Furnaces, Cryptacize, Dent May

(Chop Suey) Just when you thought you'd never hear a straightforward recording by the Fiery Furnaces again, along comes their new album I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey). It's the most classic-rocking record of their career and the least cluttered since 2005's EP, and it couldn't come at a better time. After seven years of flaunting their restless creativity, siblings Matt and Eleanor Friedberger take it easy for once—and the result is their most lived-in album, and one of their best. MICHAELANGELO MATOS

From Up & Coming:

Grant Hart

(High Dive) Last month I praised the visiting Bob Mould for "having co-powered the best American band of the 1980s," and this month, I get to lavish equal praise on Hüsker Dü's other great co-power. Grant Hart may have never managed another semibreakthrough band à la Mould's Sugar, but his 1989 release Intolerance remains my favorite solo record by a Hüsker Dü member, and his best songs—"Diane," "Terms of Psychic Warfare," "Sorry Somehow"—are eternal classics. Tonight Hart plays out in support of his new solo record, Hot Wax. DAVID SCHMADER

Anti-Pop Consortium

(Studio Seven) Back from a seven-year hiatus, New York foursome Anti-Pop Consortium strike this longtime hiphop listener as one of the genre's greatest combinations of musical and lyrical inventiveness. All three MCs—Beans, High Priest, and M. Sayyid—also make beats while producer Earl Blaize hangs in the background, just as crucial to APC's overall sound as the more prominent figures. Their comeback album, Fluorescent Black, is a slightly smoother reiteration of the spiky, diamond-sharp electro funk APC cut on Arrhythmia for the revered Warp label. APC triple-team the mic, raising braggadocio to a science while waxing wise on political and societal issues through surprising, odd metaphors and similes. And unlike many hiphop artists, they thrive in live settings. DAVE SEGAL See also Stranger Suggests, page 31.

Russian Circles, Young Widows, Helms Alee

(Neumos) Here's a tip: Right now, go get the new Russian Circles record, Geneva. Now go home, put it in the CD player or load it into your computer or put it on your turntable or whatever, and turn it up. Louder. Turn off all the lights, lie on your bed or your floor or your couch, and close your eyes. And just listen. Do nothing else. This instrumental record is so goddamn overwhelming—from the booming bass lines to the soaring, buzzing guitar riffs—it shouldn't be listened to while you're doing anything else. It needs your full attention. And it's good that you're lying down. Because afterward, you're gonna need a nap. MEGAN SELING

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