Jenny Hoyston's Paradise Island

Jenny Hoyston's street cred is impeccable. She's the frontwoman for the crazed post-math-nu-rock-whatever groundbreakers Erase Errata, whose latest release, Night Life, demonstrates the band's continued maturity, as Hoyston leads her crew through a seamless series of songs that are both weird and compelling. Hoyston's known for dipping her toes in about a zillion side projects, and her latest is Jenny Hoyston's Paradise Island. With this group—Collin Dupuis, Deb Norris, Christina Files, Rob Spector and Adrienne Anemone—Hoyston still explores the odd little breaks and strange little choruses that have made Erase Errata's signature sound, but she tones it down a bit, her trumpet low in the mix rather than bursting in spasms as is usual. Nowhere does Hoyston's songwriting flair shine more than in the song "Spell DOG," its verse a sentimental, catchy drone punctuated by an off-kilter tune of a chorus. On "MOTIONS," Hoyston sings "I follow motions, not emotions" over a zig-zagging guitar, but judging from the insightfulness of her music and lyrics, it's hard to believe she doesn't follow both.