THE SHUT-UPS: The band’s latest, Proverbs, is a double album full of dubious advice for a stiff-necked people.  The 2-CD set features the band’s signature nervy New Wave witticisms, but also diverse sounds including Outlaw Country, Sloppy Jazz, Regressive Prog, Progressive Lounge, Lunch-Pail Americana, The Great Armenian Songbook, Simpering Folk, Homesick Mediterranean Sea Shanty, Third Wave Anti-Skiffle, Socratic Monologue, Dilapidated Yacht Rock, Lethargic Protest, Unduly Tentative Awards Show Exit Music, and World Music Tape Loops Baked In Layers Of Bureaucracy And Weaponized Against The Forces Of Specificity.

FLASH TO BANG TIME: Quiet but mischievous, the legendary Athens group creates a mesmerizing and unusual style of dexterous avant-pop