Final Thoughts

A frustrating species, we do have some interesting aspects. From headstrong determination as displayed in buoyant Irish retro-rockers SEPTEMBER GIRLS’ cavernous passions, “Cursing the Sea,” Latin music maestros DANNY RIVERA and NELSON GONZALEZ’s classic infatuated boleros, “Obsesión,” and punchy cyber-funky number-crunchers COLOR WAR’s cool, cooing, “It Could Only Be This Way” to extracurricular friction offered by Sweden’s techno-kinetic chanteuse LUNE’s ethereal, “Music & Sports, suave Britpop connoisseurs METRONOMY’s succinct, unblinking valentine, “Love Letters,” or apocalyptic tripsters DEAD RIDER’s lawless jigsaw-rock, “Chills on Glass,” we are nothing if not wildly amusing.