Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse have spent years making thoughtful and unpredictable art, whether musically as Joan of Arc or Cap’n Jazz or Spa Moans, or under their given names as writers and visual artists. On Giddy Skelter, their debut album as the unadorned “Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse,” they’ve crafted a swirling, past-future, future-past, sorta-rock melange, that’s undeniably of its moment. It’s rich with musical references while radiating a visionary path forward.

Mixing live instrumentation with samples so manipulated that it’s impossible to tell their origins, it’s music that feels both eerily familiar yet inarguably the product of their exacting processes. Sometimes the thing that makes great rock n’ roll is the ineffable and the intangible, something you can only describe as alchemy; other times it’s the rigors of process. On Kinsella and Pulse’s Giddy Skelter, it’s both — and it sounds unlike anything else you’ll hear this year.

Their follow-up album will be released on Kill Rock Stars in 2025.