Yuck are a really good band. As a listener, you know you’re gonna get fuzz, good melodies, sweet licks too, perhaps—a bunch of fun songs, in short. This is all true, again, on their new album, Stranger Things, and there are other things that are true: songs on this album will jump out at you and seize you. Songs on this album are mini-epics, full-on epics, and tiny elegies, sometimes all at once. Hearts in Motion is an example of this all-in-one model. It starts with a stunning riff, but the song is protean, shifting this way and that, speeding up and slowing down (in a way that’s reminiscent of some Built to Spill songs)—it gets your blood pumping. It’s a ballad folded into a high-energy guitar burner.[BUY Stranger Things]