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** Garageland

DO WHAT YOU WANT

(Flying Nun/Foodchain)

This Auckland-based band may have borrowed their name from a track on the Clash’s rst album, but Garageland have more to do with New Zealand’s long tradition of idiosyncratic indie pop — typified by the Clean, the Chills, and the Bats — than with formative British punk. Too much of the music on their second album sounds like nondescript post-grunge collegiate rock. But two stellar tracks here are well worth salvaging. “Trashcans” showcases the band’s knack for amiable vocals and lyrics that are cryptic without being smugly misanthropic (“So go ahead and set the controls to the heart of the suburbs,” sings Jeremy Eade in an unassuming style that brings to mind Neil Finn). And in “Good Morning,” Eade narrates the misadventures of a wide-eyed village savant over a backdrop of hopscotching bass and drums and spiraling guitar lines.

— Patrick Bryant