The second disc from these O.C. kids is a sweet-and-sour cocktail of buzz-saw guitars, Stooges propulsion and coed sloganeering -- not to mention the rare garage-rock album that was actually recorded in a garage. Barnburners like "Cons and Tricks" set catchy choruses over a minimalist rush of sloppy grooves and guitars, and after blasting through twenty cuts in just under an hour, singer-bassist Jessica Reynoza intones, "We can die now." Not so -- they need onl...

"We recorded it in our bass player's brother's garage," says singer-guitarist Richie James Follin. "We'd do our guitar tracks sitting in my minivan with the mixing board on the seat. It's better than spending so much money in a studio."

Talk in Circles is a sweet-and-sour cocktail of buzz-saw guitars, Stooges propulsion...