New Orleans firestarters have a great take on Le Tigre and techno Public Image Ltd. and Chicago house and LCD Soundsystem—they’re all the same thing! There’s a real sense of beautiful mayhem here, a little like The B-52s gone political and aggro, or simple decades of musical and political resistance coalescing in one spot and getting lit on fire (accidentally). Singer Alli Logout is a natural and in some version of the near future, one of these songs could be a hit? If there are hits now.

– Sasha Frere-Jones