Dos: Silver Vinyl LP

One of the best albums released in 2009, the second album from Wooden Shjips back in Print. The group maintains its strident pace like a silverfish rave in perfectly folded bedsheets, with more bounce per ounce as life goes jogging with bopping heads and digging heels. Five numbers whose style might fit as cozily at La Cave in 1968 as at Ibiza in 1988. Natural loops with just enough vocals take you where the khakis and the cut-offs play together.

Debut album and various singles have established them as one of the best psych bands to inhabit this earthly realm. This sophomore record raises the stakes, invoking minimalist psych forefathers Loop and Neu.