Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a cult 1981 garage rock record steeped in Memphis lore. With Alex Chilton as his sideman, the provocative Tav Falco brought blues and rockabilly screaming into the post-punk era.

On a new reissue, the early PC Music release remains an absurdist plastic wonder, the broken toy that comes with an “underground dance music”-themed Happy Meal.

Bringing their country-tinted indie rock to boundless new landscapes, the Chicago band returns with their most emotionally affecting and compositionally advanced songs to date.

A noise artist who once found hidden music in the crackle of fire sounds equally incendiary on her latest EP of club music, sculpting redlining rhythms out of blocks of charred bass.