HOTLINE TNT Cartwheel (Third Man) — The second album from Brooklyn-based band Hotline TNT is a ravishing mudslide of revival shoegaze. Largely the brainchild of Will Anderson, a transplanted Midwesterner who wears the influence of the many Minneapolis maestros of messy melodies on his finely frayed sleeve, Cartwheel is tangy and tuneful. The guitars wash across the album like steamy summer storms without ever subsuming the lilting vocals or jabbing, jolting drum parts. The music is riven by disruption yet remarkably stable. Note the way the Hüsker Dü blast at the opening of “Son In Law” gives ways to a dense, swoony tune. Album opener “Protocol” suggests the bounty of creative energy across the whole work; it feels like a a cascade of false starts that were somehow shaped into a full-to-bursting songs. At times, it seems the ideas are coming so furious and fast that the tracks are trapped into crashing into each other or follow in such quick succession that they might as well be linked together like heaving railcars. It’s tempting, then, to term the album a runaway train, except that Conductor Anderson clearly has full control. He’s just running the mighty transport at its white-hot limit. In addition to those already mentioned, go head over heels for the following tracks: “I Thought You’d Change,” “I Know You,” “Spot Me 100,” and the majestic fuzz of “BMX.”

SPIRITUAL CRAMP Spiritual Cramp (Blue Grape) — After years of deliberately slow-build toiling that included a string of well-received EPs and singles, the San Francisco band Spiritual Cramp finally spread out to two full-length sides with a self-titled effort. In all the best ways, Spiritual Cramp recalls the heyday of punk rock’s rapid evolution in the late nineteen-seventies and early nineteen-eighties, when tuneful craft jockeyed with distorting volumes in the throbbing hearts of the genre’s most skilled practitioners. The tempered cries of “Let’s go!” that open the brightly goofball “Talkin’ on the Internet” (“Red flag, Green light, Close call, Don’t text – Don’t call”) call to mind any number of immediate Ramones apers from back in the day, and “City on Fire” takes big, hiccuping chomps like vintage Gang of Four. Even so, the album is sleekly modern, allowing the band to album their way into the lineup of usual suspects who’ve spent the past couple decades proving the surprising durability of headlong rock ‘n’ roll: ”Herberts on Holiday” sounds like a less bombastic version of the Killers, and “Better Off This Way” could earn the first ever The Hives Seal of Approval. If the latter were to happen, those Swedish stalwarts surely wouldn’t be the only ones eagerly handing out plaudits to Spiritual Cramp. Tighten up with the following tracks: “Blowback,” “Clashing at the Party,” and “Can I Borrow Your Lighter?”