Radical Dads, Mega Rama

Such a good name for a band, especially since there’s a woman in it, that you want them to succeed. Radical Dads have a leg up already because of the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah pedigree of guitarist Robbie Guertin. With the recent release of Mega Rama, the band (which formed in 2008) has more than doubled their recorded output. They play a special strain of Brooklyn rock that will resonate with elderly Velvet Underground acolytes and disenchanted contemporary youth alike. Crazy chord blurts and spectral consciousness-expansion combine in three-minute wonderments like “No New Faces” and “Little Tomb,” while the five-and-a-half-minute opus “Hurricane” is a wandering blissful thing unto itself. The most commercial-sounding, straightahead pop track, “New Age Dinosaur” is indeed the album’s first single and video. Lindsay Baker chirps the vocals on this one, which mentions power lunches and giant moths.