Puffyshoes - Finally The Weekend [2011]

This album is like the summer festival that you never went to as a kid because you grew up in Detroit. This album is the album that Vivian Girls would've released if they were Japanese and hadn't broken up last year. This album will potentially break your hi-fidelity speaker system and Finally The Weekend by Puffyshoes, an all-girl indie rock duo from Japan, will simultaneously be the cutest and most badass thing you listen to this week.

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Mercury Rev - Lego My Ego [1992]

Mostly live EP (may as well be an album based on its length, though) from the early days of Mercury Rev, including the classic single Car Wash Hair and an early version of Chasing a Bee. The version of Very Sleepy Rivers on here is especially kickass. Recommended for fans of noisy psych rock, but it helps if you've already heard Yerself Is Steam since most of the material on here is taken from it.

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