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As an addendum to 2001's double-CD release of these post-punk Swiss misses' remarkable studio catalog, Kill Rock Stars digs even deeper for an appropriately lo-fi 1979 concert and a tighter late-career gig from 1983. Historically obscure?

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Think of this impressive, 25-song double-CD compilation as Singles Going Screaming -- a testament to a Canadian punk institution. Live, singer Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham stalks the stage like a disturbed, bloody hulk, but on record his throat-shredding shouts are always focused, alongside Mike Haliechuk's relentless guitar and Jonah Falco's ferocious drumming.

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Retro as it is -- 17 songs split into two “sides” -- this dense, complex document is an impressive display of vitality by the Athens, Georgia–based Elephant 6 collective, as Will Cullen Hart of the late Olivia Tremor Control weds that band’s bizarre breakdowns with Apples in Stereo’s earnest tunefulness.

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This folkie indie-pop band doesn’t slam you with hooks on its fourth album -- everything is catchy in a modest, reasonable way.

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With micro-house maven Matthew Herbert at the controls, wunderkind composer and hip-hop head Mica Levi leads her trio through this 28-minute cockeyed burst, each song a bizarre little post-punk contraption that sounds like it's ready to fly apart and wreak havoc. Yet her debut is also insanely disorienting fun.

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Seattle's Michael Benjamin Lerner is a one-man band that doesn't come off like one, mainly because as a drummer who plays guitar (like Dave Grohl) he has a sharper rhythmic sense than guitarists who try to play drums.