Miniboone

After two EPs and a 7” single, the Brooklyn-based quintet Miniboone throws together a proper debut album that channels David Byrne on the spastic and determined “Phases,” “Rollerskates," and the dynamic “Gimme Gimme Gimme” (not the Black Flag tune). Since 2008, Miniboone has been sharing stages with such likeminded bands as Art Brut and The B-52s. Working for a year at a Manhattan studio with Travis Harrison (Lifeguards, Homosexuals), the group assembled a kinetic record that barrels out of the gate with “The Superposition of Human Affection” and wanders through the odd solemnity of the three-part harmony ballad “Magic Eye,” the neurotic soul of “Baby, I Hope So,” and the Hold Steady–style charge of “Just Like the Day I Heard” before inviting the whole neighborhood over for the grand-celebration intro of the hard and spiky “She Sleeps Alone.” Things end with the harmonium on the shell-shocked “Animal Age,” where the band threatens to exit quietly before settling around the fire to harmonize the night away.