VIDEO OF THE DAY: “LITE DREAM” BY DIARRHEA PLANET

The idea of the earth overrun by dysentery isn’t the most appetizing of thoughts. But as it turns out, Diarrhea Planet might not be such a bad thing after all. The Nashville six-piece has just released its sophomore full-length, I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (Infinity Cat, August 20), the follow-up to 2011’s Loose Jewels. The new album (which can be streamed here) is a furious forty-minute unrelenting blast of psychedelic garage punk and indie pop, with nods to the ’50s, ’60, ’70s, and ’80s, powered by four shredding guitarists, Jordan Smith, Evan Bird, Brent Toler, and Emmett Miller, along with bassist Mike Boyle and drummer Casey Weissbuch. Citing such wide-ranging influences as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Japanese literature, Steely Dan, the animated movie Heavy Metal, Bad Religion, and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, DP investigates loneliness, unrequited love, boredom, evil, and dead bodies on I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, although it’s far from depressing. “I feel so lost, man / I try to bring myself down / so I can relate to / the things you think about,” Smith sings on “Kids,” continuing, “Like burning bridges / and happy children / the salty taste of / my sweat in the ocean.” Other explosive tracks include “Separations,” “Hammer of the Gods,” “Ugliest Son,” and “Babyhead.” Diarrhea Planet will be letting loose at Mercury Lounge on August 30 with Brooklyn punks the So So Glos, who are touring behind their latest, Blowout.