Before this year, L.A. post-punks Moaning had only a single to their name, but their self-titled LP feels less like a debut than the peak of a seasoned group’s discography where they’ve found a way to effortlessly communicate a physical and emotional state. ►

The title track is full of electronic squelches, sizzling Casio melodies, and an un-subtle cough or two in the back—it’s the kind of playful, polymorphic tune that could work wonderfully in a downtown warehouse DJ set or at an Echo Park house party. (Either way, you’re dancing.) ►

Isn’t it nice when things are exactly as they seem? The Koreatown Oddity’s A Beat at the Table is uncomplicated in concept but rich in pleasures, a 19-minute tape of scuzzy trunk-rattlers scrounged from bits of Solange’s A Seat at the Table. ►

This bleak, funereal atmosphere gives Past Where They Drain Them… an exciting sense of displacement. It's a shock of black-and-white in a field of vibrant color. ►

Released just before Halloween with an orange-hued cover, Happy Omen is, ironically, Goon’s softest and strangest work to date, like an earnestly carved pumpkin wilted after too long in the sun. ►