At Arm’s Length, the latest EP from Brooklyn’s Le Big Zero offers an amalgamation of garage rock and art-rock that at times borders on the avant-garde because of antiphonal discordant tones, infusing the music with oil and water textures. Two tracks – “Toy” and “Pay No Mind” – highlight this intense, angular sonic juxtaposition, with the former track’s dissonant tones rubbing against each other, followed by a time change, the introduction of strident guitars, and lock-step male-female harmonies. The result is a kind of lo-fi, garage rock musical storm, at once innovative and fresh. Speaking subjectively, perhaps the best track on the EP is “Nice To Meet You,” which opens on gritty, punk-flavoured guitars and then shifts to jarring, luminous guitars, followed by reverting to the prior punk ...