Heather The Jerk is a scrappy and endlessly catchy garage project from Minneapolis, and this LP pressing of a 2021 cassette punches in with eleven songs and not a dud in the bunch. The recording is raw, adding urgency to these excellently crafted pop songs with wail-along hooks and surprising chord changes that rev things up at the right times. At one point in my listen, I wrote down “non-problematic Weezer,” but I think I’m gonna go with “smell like The Ramones, play like Squeeze” for the way they keep it interesting without losing momentum or grit. –Chris Terry (heatherthejerk.bandcamp.com)