Rebuilding The Jesus & Mary Chain's wall of Spectorian distortion with the tools that Steve Albini's old bands once employed—specifically those die-cut and lathe-hewn bass and drum sounds—is the sort of attack plan that seems to work better on paper than in practice. But given that singer/guitarist Oliver Ackermann's day job is building guitar pedals, it shouldn't come as a surprise that, over the course of two full-lengths and countless EPs, APTBS has taken this blueprint and made it their own. With Carol Cleveland Sings and ROAR.—David Raposa