Guerilla Toss: Eraser Stargazer
Hitting the gigantic, happy points of jammy bands, woolier DIY acts and heavy beat-makers alike, Boston-founded and Brooklyn-based noise-groove quintet Guerilla Toss seem poised to take the festival circuit by storm just as soon as a hit finds them. After a dozen LPs/tapes on tiny labels, Eraser Stargazer arrives with maximum fun via DFA, the disco-indie imprint co-founded by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. With reggae-yawping vocalist Kassie Carlson at center stage, the band’s music is filled with the insistent and unrelenting neon waves that recall the wildest moments of Brian Eno’s collaborations with Talking Heads. While the eight songs pulse with the implication of mosh pits to come and colors explode and swirl, mostly splattered by Toby Aronson’s synth, the groove-noise is clearly the main event. None of Carlson’s octave-jumping vocal emissions quite cut it as earworms, but all of the shouting is intoxicating, as is the project as a whole. Sounding effortlessly of the moment and over the top, Guerilla Toss ticks like a cross between a bomb and a racing heart.