Guerilla Toss has long been enamored with the danceable strains of no wave and post-punk, taking inspiration from the whacked out disco-skronk visions of James Chance and the sweat-stained grooves of ESG. Listening to the New York outfit’s earliest cassette releases, you could hear them straining to burst out of the boundaries of both the lo-fi recording process and their limitations as players and songwriters. The promise of Guerilla Toss has been more than fulfilled on their most recent album (and first for DFA Records), Eraser Stargazer. The band’s sound benefits from having a clear path to tape—these songs are pulsating and multi-layered, with plenty of slow-burning bass lines and the driving force of agogo bells. ROBERT HAM