Turbo Fruits

What happens when a just-for-fun side project is kind of better than the musicians’ also-good main band? This record. For it, guitarist Jonas Stein and drummer John Eatherly of Nashville’s Be Your Own Pet hooked up with a bassist, identified as only Turbo Max, to tear off a ripping set of stoned-’70s garage rawk that, amazingly for kids born in the late ’80s, does justice to all their inspirations. Dig the thrillingly mindless “Volcano,” which answers the troubling question, “What do you call it when you get so stoned / You don’t even know how to believe?” with a simple, quivering, “Volcano.” Other things Turbo Fruits get right: dedicating a rollicking track to a “Devo Girl” and ending the scorching album with “The Ballad.” What they get wrong: not much, really.

Turbo Fruits play Maxwell’s Thu 19, Silent Barn/Raven’s Den Fri 20 and Bowery Ballroom Sat 21.