Disappears: Guider

Disappears initially sounds like a garage-rock band inexplicably trapped inside a stealth aircraft. Even more than last year’s debut, Lux, the new Guider seems too shadowy and sleek to figure out quickly. Disappears uses a lot of reverb and delay—too much for most bands—but applies the effects with a relentlessly slop-free touch. Each time a guitar bounces off the echo-dome on “New Fast,” it’s as crisp and curt as a board karate-chopped in half. The band’s songwriting has its share of contradictions too: The more it keeps building around one simple pattern (and that’s a lot on the 15-minute “Revisiting”), the more high-functioning it becomes.