Musical instability in rock music is not appreciated by all, but if you caught that bug - say - from Syd Barret's solo records, or from The Pixies (like we did) it's then very very hard not to embrace it. In their bizarre and (in most cases) gently noisy new album "Breaking Mirrors," Brooklyn duo/quartet Blanche Blanche Blanche cultivates music instability - together with a few other sonic ideas, like a certain angularity that has nothing to do with squares and rectangles, but rather with weirdly shaped polygons. The songs in "Breaking Mirrors" are actually very poppy, they feature simple melodies and structures, but (like all our favorite records) they sound nothing like pop. Sarah Smith's dead pan vocals and ambivalent lirycs double the feeling of estrangedness, and numb alienation created by arrangements that sound like geometry lessons disturbed by radio interferences. Somewhat reminiscent of Suicide and early Wire, but playing their electric instruments with an even more mechanical approach through bit crunching effects and fidelity disintegrating devices, Blanche Blanche Blanche pull off an imaginative hybrid of lo-fi, math rock, goth, noise rock and industrial, that shies away from all current trends, and sounds as fresh and challenging as it sounds, well... depressing. Which is something that's actually making us quite happy right now!

Every year, in our Best of NYC Emerging Artists Poll we get at least one band (picked by one of our jurors) that is so obscure it doesn't even have music online - not to mention a Facebook profile. In the latest 2012 edition, this band was Blanche Blanche Blanche. Although Google didn't share much info about them, between 2010 and 2013 they had already released not two but seven full length records, recorded - of course - on the very retro multitrack cassette format.

If you were to imagine how this band's music sounded from they way they describe it, you probably wouldn't even give them a shot: "For Breaking Mirrors we wrote material designed to be played in unison by a rock instrumentation against a vocal countermelody. The bassist & guitarists were provided with melodies in the form of series of named eighth notes ( 3F 4E 2A 2C, begins "Fisted" ) but were free to determine their movement between octave registers."

But words don't matter too much, and the preview single "I Just Wanna Know" (streaming below) is a super fun, super fast and super quick lo-fi pop gem featuring nasal vocals, odd tempos and sudden changes reminiscent of the Pixies. Some kind of frantic toy drums dictate a neckbreaking tempo, followed faithfully by super effected guitars, while a series of well placed noises contribute to an overall atmosphere of tightly organized chaos. We dig! - Photo by Christina Schneider

We added this song to The Deli's playlist of Best songs by emerging NYC artists - check it out!

Union Pool on September 5th will host a perfect show to indulge your musical ADHD. With tribal sounding percussion, reminiscent of earlier Local Natives or Wild Beasts, Friend Roulette (pictured) mixes a plethora of genres, from pop to psych to folk, without ever sounding like a forced fusion. The band just released a new single entitled ViVa ZyPreXa (streaming below), belonging to the sparser and more experimental side of their repertoir. They’re playing with Xenia Rubinos, an eccentric and sultry vocalist who crafts jagged jumpy rhythms into danceable avant-pop tracks. Obscure post punk group Blanche Blanche Blanche will be joining the set as well, adding a dark flavor to this eclectic show. All bands are based in Brooklyn! - Paul Jordan Talbot

Like a jack-in-the-box about to fall off the rails, Blanche Blanche Blanche keeps you guessing what's coming next, the entire way through. Utilizing their penchant for 4-track and melodic approximation to produce an out of this world, grim inducing experience, this new-to-Brooklyn duo is crafting Ween influcenced lo-fi madness for a new generation. Listen to new LP 'Wooden Ball' and just try to make sense this robo-rock assault if you can. - Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)