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Mister Heavenly, ‘Out of Love’ (Sub Pop)

Made up of Ryan “Honus ?Honus” Kattner (Man Man), Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, the Shins), and Nick Thorburn (the Unicorns, Islands), Mister Heavenly offer loose-limbed rock designed for generation-uniting barroom sing-alongs. “I Am a Hologram” blends the Faces’ swagger and the Elephant 6 collective’s ramshackle ways into something slightly more mannered, while the reverb-heavy “Wise Men” would sound great blasting from a ’61 T-Bird. The whole thing breezes along like an afternoon at a pub where the oldies-laden jukebox takes you from Everly Brothers despair (“Doom Wop”) to island escape (“Reggae Bird”).