Yet another alternative requiem for the post-Katrina Yatlantis? Certainly it seems like that’s what these locals have in mind; they follow up their ‘04 debut You Is President by opening with the (not exactly soothing) sounds of the ocean and utilizing pointed song titles like “Lake Nola,” “Blighted House Rebuilt,” “AquaSomnia,” and “Crescent City Slump.” (We’ll ignore “Ready Set Gogh.”) But this is high-minded stuff when you get down to it, a pair of brothers who are fine with quoting Nagin’s famous Garland Robinette interview in “Lake Nola” or using spoken word to paint an provocative picture on “Slow Up,” but they are also capable of stringing together a serious of hilarious henpecked phrases and dubbing the result, simply, “Playa.”

Like a lot of psych-pop bands, they have a tendency to wander musically, and like any number of shoegazers, they get caught spacing out on occasion, but these 15 tracks happily have some solid songcraft under the foundation, about what you would get if Dave Grohl had abandoned Foo Fighters to go underground with Thurston Moore and indulged his nu-metal just side a little to boot. The general emphasis on texture over sloganeering means that their view of the disaster’s a little muddled. But the skincrawling fear of that moment – and the crippling, endlessly agitated isolation of the aftermath – comes through perfectly.