Arizona

From the first grungy, then vaguely pixelated, guitar chords of album-opener 'Trembling Hands,' 'Arizona', the second record proper by loop-rock band Mylets, just grabs you by the ears and controls you. It will not let go. Unlike last year's predecessor, 'Retcon', a hit-and-miss affair that showed some great ambition but as many great gaps in songwriting cred, 'Arizona' is an incredible, enlightening, engaging, wonderful record, made all the more beautiful and accomplished by the fact that it is the product of one man and one man alone, post-Tween uber-guitar-structuralist Henry Kohen.