Nara's Room- Tearless, Thoughtless

Nara's Room blows the bedroom door clean off its hinges on Tearless, Thoughtless, upcycling Lizzie McGuire reruns, AOL away messages, and Skechers tennis shoes into something cyclonic and completely their own — a flamboyantly hi-fi slacker pop record that's fluent in Y2K without being handcuffed to it. Exuberant, glitchy, and zipped together with joyful melodies that smack like a sugar rush on a dial-up modem, this is nostalgia crashing into the future with eyes wide shut.

David Walker