Becky

Spasmodic avant punk act the Miami Dolphins (actually from Minneapolis, Minnesota) offer up 13 tracks of art-damaged noise punk on their debut album, Becky. Sounds range from all-out assault, as with Melt Banana-meets-Minutemen blasts of brevity such as "Dandelion" and "Carcrash," to mutant funk in the vein of Essential Logic on "Pucker Upper." The disorienting and beautiful pastiche of ideas flows by in less than half an hour, its strange tunes calling to mind some of the best names in the canon of art-damaged indie rock. ~ Fred Thomas